Kulos - Baby Thunderbird Item Number: 2004-2/235 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Spirit of the Ancestors-The dancer cocks the Kolus head to one side, slowly sweeping its piercing eye across the house, then tilts and reverses his swing as the song describes the Kolus, calling it Screecher Mask. - Bill Holm
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black, white, red, orange, and dark red.
Item History
- Made by Klatle-Bhi
- Received from Arthur B. Steinman
What
- Name
- Kulos - Baby Thunderbird
- Identification Number
- 2004-2/235
- Type of Item
- forehead mask and thunderbird
- Material
- wood, paint, cedar bark, feather, copper ore metal and string
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved, painted, inlaid, glued and tied
- Overall
- length 49.5 cm, width 33.0 cm, depth 35.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Creator
- Klatle-Bhi
- Received from
- Arthur B. Steinman
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Arthur B. Steinman
- Motif
- Thunderbird
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection