Wasgo - Haida Seamonster

WASGO - Haida Seamonster - 27th April 2007

I've had the picture of the Wasgo for a long time and was just deciding where to put this beautiful image. Really the only place for it was my right inner thigh; the last big blank space.

Any keen observer may notice that the red has not been filled in, just outlined. I decided not to after seeing several other images of the Wasgo which suggested the red should only be outlined.

The legend of Wasgo concerns a young gambling man with a nagging mother-in-law. Dressed in the skin of a sea monster, he caught various fish by night, and was finally overpowered by a pair of whales. He returned only to take his wife to an underwater home. Good luck will come to someone fortunate enough to see him, his wife, or their offspring, the "Daughters of the Creeks." Wasgo is depicted with the head of a wolf, but the fins of a killer whale.