Crooked Beak Mask | Humsumhl Item Number: 25.0/208 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
The mask was said to have been made nearly one hundred years ago by a carver named Hayogwis for chief Gwalis Gyekhendzi. This chief was the grandfather of Willie Seaweed, whose work is well represented in the Burke Museum collection. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972).
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is red, white, 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
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Galokwumhl
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection