Baton Item Number: 25.0/269 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Singers who sit at the back of the house in front of a painted screen use wooden batons such as these to beat on a plank in time with their songs. The baton (in front), which has a thunderbird design, may have been carved by Willie Seaweed.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Thunderbird
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection