Raven Story Forever First Class Postage Stamps

Raven Story draws on the Raven stories told among the peoples of the Northwest Coast, where Raven is trickster, creator, and the one who brings light into the world. The art is by Rico Worl, a Tlingit and Athabascan designer from Juneau, with Antonio Alcalá as art director, and it works in formline - the flowing, weighted line at the center of Northwest Coast design - rather than as a literal illustration. The Postal Service dedicated the stamp at the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau.

It is the stamp to reach for when the mail itself is about Native art, language or history: museum and cultural center correspondence, university department mail, gallery invitations, fundraising letters. Plenty of buyers in Southeast Alaska simply use it as their everyday stamp. Sheets of 20. The Sealaska Heritage Institute, where the stamp was dedicated, works on Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian culture and language, which is the context it came out of.