"Turtle Spirit"

According to Iroquois oral history, Sky Woman fell down to the earth when it was covered with water. Various animals tried to swim to the bottom of the ocean to bring back dirt to create land. Muskrat succeeded in gathering dirt, which was placed on the back of a turtle, which grew into the land known today as North America.

This image was originally created as a hand-pulled silk-screen serigraph in the late 1980s. The original edition is no longer available, and it is now offered as a fine art print reproduction.