High Heels Item Number: 2007-7/1 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
In the Spirit of the Ancestors-Lisa Telford and her apprentice, Shauna Colbert, received the first Bill Holm Center visiting artists grant in 2006. While studying the Burke's collection, she was inspired by the basketry shoes in the collection.
Item History
- Made by Lisa Telford
- Received from Lisa Telford
What
- Name
- High Heels
- Identification Number
- 2007-7/1
- Type of Item
- high heel
- Material
- yellow cedar bark and red cedar bark
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited and twined
- Overall
- length 9.6 in, height 5.2 in, width 3.4 in
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Creator
- Lisa Telford
- Received from
- Lisa Telford
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased with funds donated by Lawrence Christian
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection