Headdress | Frontlet Item Number: 2312 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
George Emmons collected this headdress from a chief of the Koskedi Raven clan at Sitka, Alaska. Although Tlingit headdresses are often attributed to the Tsimshian, many frontlets, including this one, are clearly Tlingit in style. The frontlet's height, the form and arrangement of figures, the blue-painted rim with its widely separated abalone plaques, the red trade flannel, and the mallard-skin border, all point to Tlingit origin. The figures carved on the frontlet are a raven and a large head that resembles a bear. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is red, blue, and black.
Item History
- Received from George T. Emmons
What
- Name
- Headdress | Frontlet
- Identification Number
- 2312
- Type of Item
- headdress and frontlet
- Material
- wood, ermine, swansdown, sea lion whisker, flicker feather, canvas, abalone shell and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- length 33.0 in, height 17.0 in, width 14.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit: Sitka
- Received from
- George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Motif
- Animal | Bird
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection