| Name |
Value |
| Date of Issue |
October 25, 1990 |
| Year |
1990
|
| Quantity |
14,500,000 |
| Denomination |
78¢
|
| Perforation or Dimension |
13.5 |
| Series |
Christmas, Native Nativity
|
| Series Time Span |
1990 |
| Printer |
Ashton-Potter Limited. |
| Postal Administration |
Canada |
| Condition |
Avg Value |
|
M-NH-VF
|
Only available to paid users |
|
U-VF
|
Only available to paid users |
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Official First Day Cover
Quantity Produced -
Unknown
Official First Day Cover (3 Stamps)
Quantity Produced -
Unknown
Official First Day Cover - Plate Block
Quantity Produced -
Unknown
This year, Canada Post Corporation's annual Christmas set features the works of four native Canadian artists. Each one has depicted the nativity or the origin of human life according to their particular cultural beliefs. Jackson Beardy's "Rebirth" (Cree) is seen on the 34¢ GREET MORE stamp. It is a rendering of the beginnings of life and its cycles of existence. On the 39¢ domestic rate, Norval Morrisseau (Ojibwa) "nativizes" a classic Christian image in his painting "Virgin Mary with Christ Child and St. John the Baptist." The green stone sculpture, "Mother and Child", created by a Cape Dorset Inuit artist (believed to be Luka Qiatsuk), is featured on the 45¢ U.S. rate design. And the 78¢ international rate stamp uses Bill Reid's serigraph on paper, "Children of the Raven", portraying the first human beings entering the world according to Haida belief. Montreal graphic designer Clermont Malenfant put distinctive backgrounds of metallic colours, textile, blanket or tapestry patterns from each artist's culture together with the artwork and the appropriate translation of the Christmas wish "Peace on Earth".
Based on a painting by William Ronald Reid.
William Ronald Reid, "Children of the Raven", 1977 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec
Canada Post Corporation. Presenting, 1990.
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