Echo Mask Item Number: 25.0/221 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
The echo is conceived as a human-like being with the ability to imitate the sound or voice of any creature. In the mask this is represented by mouths of many kinds which can be fitted to the mouth of the mask itself. There are four mouths with this echo mask: bear, raven, frog, and sea anemone. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is red, black, white, and green.
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
- Human | Animal | Bird
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection