This is an original, signed, and numbered print by Dorr Bothwell. This print was donated to the Mendocino Art Center by the artist's estate. This print has not previously been privately owned. In the Dorr Bothwell book "Straws in the Wind" published by Bruce Levene there is a mention of an encounter at an oasis near the center of Algeria. "In the firelight we could see these people, dressed in black, in dark navy blue-it's overdyed indigo cloth, which also shines kind of brownish-purple, almost iridesent because it's so heavily dyed. They're called 'blue people'. Because they don't have enough water, they oil their skin, which picks up excess dye. So they appear darker than the really are."