I painted this scene in Tenakee years ago when the cannery was still in operation. They would process hundreds of crab a day, boiling the crab, shucking it (getting the crab meat out) and putting the meat in to small cans.

Shucking crab is hard work, and you would get paid by how many you cleaned in a day. The quickest 'crab shucker' was a tough native gal, Francis See, who was blind as a bat.

- Rie Munoz