Sea Monster Mask Item Number: 1-1451 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
The stories of seafarers are often peopled by monsters of the deep: bringers of bad weather, capsizers, devourers of men. The Yagim is all of those. Described as a destroyer of whole tribes, a shark-like monster who lurks behind canoes, or the source of storms, his name literally means badness. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is blue, yellow, black, red, and green.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
- Name
- Sea Monster Mask
- Identification Number
- 1-1451
- Type of Item
- sea monster mask
- Material
- cedar wood, paint, cloth, wool cloth, cedar bark and string
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved, painted, strung and twined
- Overall
- height 29.0 cm, width 27.0 cm, depth 17.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Motif
- Sea Monster | Yagis
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection