Dzoonokwa Mask Item Number: 25.0/218 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Dzoonokwa, one of the best known mythical personages in Kwakwaka'wakw art, is usually represented as a female. She is a giantess of great strength and awesome appearance. Her characteristic features are large size, dark hairy body, hanging breasts, and a great head with heavy brow, arched nose, sunken cheeks and eyesockets, and lips pushed foward and rounded to produce her fearsome cry, "Oooooh!" (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black, red, and white.
Item History
- Made by George Walkus
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Dzoonokwa Mask
- Identification Number
- 25.0/218
- Type of Item
- dzoonokwa mask
- Material
- wood, paint and human hair
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- length 33.0 cm, width 20.5 cm, depth 17.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw: Gwa'sala
- Creator
- George Walkus
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Dzoonokwa
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection