Tootsa - Hummingbird Canvas Print WHIS Block Island National Wildlife Refuge

Block Island National Wildlife Refuge

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Channel Islands National Park protects both the islands and the water surrounding them

Jimmie Kewanwytewa began signing his work

Tootsa - Hummingbird Canvas Print WHIS Block Island National Wildlife RefugeThis print depicts Tootsa, or hummingbird, as it gathers nectar among blossoms. With the colors of the rainbow and its relationship between flowers and rain, Hummingbird wears a blessed prayer feather upon him. Below the clouds are desert mesas with petroglyphs of a rain cloud and migration spiral representing the travels he takes across the Southwest. Among flowering plants, Tootsa cares for tobacco plant blossoms used in rituals to summon rain