Gyidakhanis Mask Item Number: 25.0/222 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
After the disappearance of the excited headdress dancer and the sounding of the Tlasula horns announcing his imminent appearance, the attendants usher in a dancer, or group of dancers, whose function it is to display the inherited privilege toward which the entire Tlasula dance is focused. Some dances, such as the Gyidakhanis, feature groups of dancers and are re-enactments of mythical incidents or dances acquired from supernatural contact by an ancestor. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The white is green, red, and black.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Gyidakhanis Mask
- Identification Number
- 25.0/222
- Type of Item
- gyidakhanis mask
- Material
- wood and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- height 12.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw and Quatsino
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Face | Human | Gyidakhanis
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection