Carving | Plaque Item Number: 25.0/224 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This carving may have been salvaged from a feast dish. The lower surfaces of old dishes are often rotten and riddled by insects as a result of the custom of storing them on the ground under the houses, which, in the years since the abandonment of the traditional native house, have been frame houses raised on short pilings. The head may have been cut from an old dish that had lost its function through the rotting of the bottom. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is yellow, black, 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
- Motif
- Human Face
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection