String Puppet Item Number: 1-1653 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
It is not difficult to see how the theatrically sophisticated people of the Northwest Coast, people with traditions of representing in art and dance the creatures of history and myth, would conceive of and utilize puppets and marionettes. The imagination required to make lifeless wood seem alive is a requisite of the mask maker. Puppets and marionettes are extensions of the mask carver's work of bringing the myth-people to life. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black, red, and white.
Item History
- Received from Hauberg Foundation Grant
What
Who
- Culture
- Tsimshian
- Received from
- Hauberg Foundation Grant
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of the Hauberg Foundation Grant
- Motif
- Male
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection