Box Lid Item Number: 2.5E535 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Kwakwaka'wakw box lids characteristically have a high, raised edge along one side and it is this flange, painted with a stylized face and inlaid with sea otter teeth, which remains from the ancient lids and which had a prominent part in the ceremonial repayment of the marriage price. The goods to be transferred, among them a box containing ritual material symbolizing the dances, were gathered on the ground within a square bounded by a line of the archaic lids. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
- Name
- Box Lid
- Identification Number
- 2.5E535
- Type of Item
- box lid
- Material
- cedar wood and operculum
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 29.1 in, height 6.4 in, width 12.9 in, depth 9.4 in
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection