Whistle Item Number: 25.0/266 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This whistle is unusual in that it combines two completely different sound-producing mechanisms. Whistles widely varying in size and pitch as well as in tone quality were used to represent the presence of certain spirit motivators of the Winter Ceremonial. This whistle belongs to the Tseyka version of the Bukwus (Man of the Ground). (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
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
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection