Tunic Item Number: 2 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
The ethnological collections of the Washington State Museum (now the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum) were greatly enlarged by the acquisition of the Emmons collection of Tlingit material at the close of the Alaskaka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. At that time, curator Frank Hall began to catalog the collection. Perhaps arbitrarily, since Hall had to start somewhere, a pair of Haida dance shirts collected by James Swan for the Washington exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago were given the catalog numbers 1 and 2. The design on the front of the tunic represents a sea lion, while the one on the back is a killer whale, or orca. Killer whale and sea lions are crests of the Haida Raven phratry. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The red is blue, wool, and blue.
Item History
- Received from Washington World's Fair Commission
What
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Received from
- Washington World's Fair Commission
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Washington World's Fair Commission
- Motif
- Sea Lion | Double Finned Whale
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection