Clapper Item Number: 25.0/270 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Among the Kwakwaka'wakw the use of the clapper is reserved to the Mitla dancer, one of the performers in the Tseyka series. In the dance it is shaken rapidly and produces a staccato clattering sound. The whole instrument is carved and painted to represent the killer whale, with a thin upright dorsal fin and pectoral fins. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black and gray.
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
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Killer Whale
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection