"Death's Grave Pass" was included in Obata's portfolio of color woodcuts, World Landscape Series America. According to Driesbach, there were reportedly 400 impressions of each of the 35 compositions made, with only the finest 100 selected for the portfolios. The project employed morethan 32 carvers and 40 printers over eighteen months.
Since this impression is not signed, but has the printer's stamp on the verso, it is probably one of the rejected proofs. The paper has a number of small, pinhole size holes, which have been expertly repaired and are not visible from the recto. Death's Grave Pass is listed as No. 21 in Obata's World Landcape Series America and in Obata's personal list. There were 110 printing sequences from the blocks. It is a very fine, fresh impression.