2021 Raven Story Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Description:

The U.S. Postal Service issued the Raven Story stamp at the Sealaska Heritage Institute.

Art director Antonio Alcal designed the stamp based on art created by Tlingit/Athabascan designer and artist Rico Worl.

The stamp design depicts a raven just as he escapes from his human family and begins to transform back into his bird form. To create the stamp art. Worl used formline. the traditional design style of the Indigenous people of the northern Northwest Coast.

The stamp is inspired by the traditional story of the raven setting the sun. moon and stars free. It depicts one of many stories about the raven. a figure of great significance to the Indigenous people of the northern Northwest Coast. part of the area that ranges from Southeast Alaska through coastal British Columbia and south into Washington state.