Figure | Argillite Item Number: 25.0/279 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
Figures of women in the fashion of the day appear around the middle of the nineteenth century in panel pipe groups and as single figures. They are usually thought to represent white women, but some may depict Haida women in European dress which they were beginning to adopt at the time. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Figure | Argillite
- Identification Number
- 25.0/279
- Type of Item
- figure
- Material
- argillite stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 3.8 cm, height 5.3 cm, width 5.5 cm
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
- Figure | Woman
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection