For millennia, Inuit shamans have visited Sedna’s underwater lair, swimming down to comb her long, black tangled hair. Often angry with man, the Sea Woman releases her fury by creating violent storms and seas. Sedna disappeared below the waves, and, as her fingers sank into the ocean, they each took the form of a different marine mammal. Clinging to the kayak for her very life, Sedna’s father cut off her fingers, one by one. But, when the sea birds attacked their kayak, the father threw his problematic daughter into the ocean. Sedna’s father answered his daughter’s frantic cries for help, rescuing her from the sea bird colony. In a fit of teenage rebellion, Sedna ran away with a mysterious masked man who, she later discovered, was a Fulmar seabird. Lithograph on BFK Rives White paper – 68.5 cm x 51 cmįrom Greenland to Alaska, according to Inuit legend, Sedna is the Goddess of the Sea, the mother of all marine mammals.Ī petulant young girl, Sedna refused to marry the young men selected by her father. This limited edition work titled Sedna’s Wonder was created in 2009 by Ningeokuluk Teevee. Artwork reproduced with permission of Dorset Fine Arts. Team Sedna’s namesake is the Inuit Goddess of the Sea.
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