Frontlet Item Number: 25.0/231 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
These carved frontlets were attached to regal headdresses and use in the Nuxalk Sisaok ceremony, comparable to the Kwakwaka'wakw Tlasula. The whale has a beak-like ridge extending down the center of its face and a human face in its upturned tail.
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is blue and red.
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
Who
- Culture
- Nuxalk
- Received from
- Mrs. Anne Gerber
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Sidney Gerber Collection, Gift of Anne Gerber
- Motif
- Whale
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection