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Moku Hanga: Annie Bissett

Caleb & Joel Went to Harvard, 1665.

by Annie Bissett (b. 1955)
Self-carved and self-printed moku hanga (Japanese woodblock print)
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil
Date: 2010
Edition: 8
Printed with 5 carved blocks and 7 hand-rubbed color layers
Image size: 14.5 x 20.5 inches (37 x 52 cm)
X101219
$450.

"Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck and Joel Iacoombs were the first two native American students at Harvard, class of 1665. Joel would have been valedictorian but he died in a shipwreck. Caleb died of tuberculosis about a year after graduation. It was 305 years before the next native American graduated from Harvard. " Annie Bissett