Horn (Musical Instrument) Item Number: 25.0/261 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This horn is one of a pair in the Burke Museum collection. It represents a raven, shown with a broad humanoid face, the beak extending downward from the lower jaw. Horns of this type are sometimes designated as from the Dluwulakha ritual. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Raven
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection