Painting

About this object

Narrative

One of a set originally painted in a spiral drawing book while Mungo Martin was in a Vancouver hospital in 1951.

Physical description

Painting of a wolf feast dish. Overall colours used are black, red, green, white, and yellow. Framed with brown wood and mounted on a burlap covered board. Handwritten inscription on top left corner reads: "wolf big dish," and below this, "aλəm," and below this, "aéigin." Both of these words have a large bracket } pointing to the word "λuq (superscript w)alit."