Settee | Child's Item Number: 25.0/257 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
In times past the Kwakwaka'wakw did not use chairs, but sat on the floor or on the ground, sometimes leaning on the platform of the house, or on a plank fastened against stakes driven in the ground. A wealthy chief may have a more elaborate settee, carved and painted with his crests. This small settee, made by artist Willie Seaweed, was probably made for a favored child. The mythical creature depicted is called a Sisioohl. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black, red, yellow, green, and white.
Item History
- Made by Willie Seaweed
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw: 'Nakwaxda'xw
- Creator
- Willie Seaweed
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Sisioohl
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection