Feast Ladle Item Number: 25.0/258 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Great ladles, with figures of mythical creatueres carved on their handles, are used to distribute food from the feast dishes. The Burke Museum collection includes a pair of large ladles decorated with carved Sisioohl heads. The Sisioohl head is conceived as an extension of the handle, bent back upon itself and joined to the neck of the spoon. The head, with its coiled nostril, scaly crest, and spiral horn, is deeply carved and painted in black, red, green, and white. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is green, black, red, and white.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Feast Ladle
- Identification Number
- 25.0/258
- Type of Item
- feast ladle
- Material
- wood, copper metal and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- length 47.5 in, width 13.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Sisioohl
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection