Spoon Item Number: 2333 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
The painting on this feast spoon is expertly and elegantly done. The figure fits its somewhat difficult format without any apparent forcing or distortion of elements. Master artists of the Northwest Coast excelled in composition for awkward shapes or on complex, three-dimensional surfaces. This feast spoon is one of three in the collection of the Burke Museum. Lieutenant George Emmons, who collected this spoon, identified the creature on it as an eagle. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The wood is maple. The paint is red and black.
Item History
- Received from George T. Emmons
What
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Received from
- George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from George T. Emmons
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection