Cradle Item Number: 25.0/243 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Decorated cradles like this one were used only by nobility, and the designs were probably valued family crests. This design represents a whale on the long sides and a copper on the back of the headboard. The whole surface is carved in low relief and painted in black, orange, yellow, red, white, and green on a blue ground. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is blue, black, yellow, red, white, green, and orange.
Item History
- Made by Willie Seaweed
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw: 'Nakwaxda'xw
- Creator
- Willie Seaweed
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Whale
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection