Pipe | Argillite Item Number: 25.0/280 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This early pipe combines a raven and two human figures in a compact arrangement. The raven, a favorite subject of argillite carvers in the early period, dominates the composition. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven 1972)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Anne Gerber
What
- Name
- Pipe | Argillite
- Identification Number
- 25.0/280
- Type of Item
- pipe
- Material
- argillite stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved
- Overall
- length 19.0 cm, height 5.5 cm, width 2.5 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
- Humans | Raven
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection