Headdress Frontlet Item Number: 25.0/233 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This frontlet is worn on the forehead of a dancer participating in the Tlasula. The back of the headdress is usually covered with a strip of swanskin. Around the upper rim is attached a row of sea lion whiskers. To the back of the crown is attached rows of ermine skins. The carving on this frontlet is apparently a family crest figure representing a hawk or thunderbird. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is green, red, and black.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Headdress Frontlet
- Identification Number
- 25.0/233
- Type of Item
- headdress frontlet
- Material
- wood, paint and abalone shell
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- height 7.0 in, width 6.2 in, depth 4.3 in
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
- Bird
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection