Headdress | Frontlet Item Number: 25.0/230 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This carved frontlet represents a mountain goat, a common crest among the Haida and the Tsimshian. It can usually be recognized by the slim black horns and, when the whole animal is shown, by the blunt hooves. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Mountain Goat
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection