the carving of the
raven and the men
by Andrew Friesen
One day in Hawaii these Samoan warriors were sipping on some tea, when all
of a sudden a raven came over a mountain. This raven had a sea shell in it’s claw. The raven
dropped the sea shell on the beach and the shell cracked open and thousands of men came
out with knives and swords. The Samoan warriors rushed out with their spears and started
to slaughter the men and put the men’s heads on sticks. The men started to retreat and found
these canoes and canoed to another island and settled on that island.
Two years later the men went back to the island where they had their battle, they went and
found that the shell that they had came out of was gone. They went to go find the shell and
they did but it was cut up into different pieces.
The Samoan warriors had made it into expensive jewelry and the men got pissed off and
waged war on the Samoan warriors again and killed them all this time. They put the remaining
s hell on display on the beach as a carving. And their following generations looked after the
carving until they made a museum about their people on that location. They put the carving
of the raven and the men as the main display. Until this day it’s on display.
The Carving of the Raven and the Men, read by Atticus Hare, 2013.
Acrylic on canvas, Untitled, by Andrew Friesen, 2013.
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