Frontlet Item Number: 1-1459 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
These carved frontlets were attached to regal headdresses and used in the Kwakwaka'wakw Tlasula. This beaver is identified by its two large front teeth and stick in its mouth. Its flat tail raised at the top has a human face at the base.
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is red, blue, green, and black.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
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
- Motif
- Beaver (Animal)
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection