Copper Item Number: 25.0/301 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
One of the most characteristic objects of Northwest Coast manufacture is the copper. Superficially resembling a shield, it had throughout the northern coast a place of high regard as an object of chiefly paraphernalia. Among most of the coastal people, and especially among the Kwakwaka'wakw, it was considered to represent monetary wealth. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Copper
- Identification Number
- 25.0/301
- Type of Item
- copper
- Material
- copper metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- riveted
- Overall
- height 19.5 in, width 10.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection