Headdress
Item number A6155 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Description
Headdress in the form of a bird with the head and chest at the front, and two wings folded over a tail at the back. The figure is painted white with a black animal figure design on the chest, the outlines of feathers on the wings and tail in black, the eyes and eyebrows in black, and the mouth in red. Off-white fabric attached with metal nails behind chest. One of a set of four (see A6154 - A6157).
History Of Use
Dance headdress.
Iconographic Meaning
Loon: xawi, the neck is too short to be a swan's. (T. Johnson, 1966).
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
- Owned by James Dick before 1953
- Received from James Dick (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source) during 1953
What
- Name
- Headdress
- Identification Number
- A6155
- Type of Item
- headdress
- Material
- cotton fibre ?, wood, paint and metal
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved, painted and nailed
- Overall
- height 33.0 cm, width 50.8 cm, depth 50.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, Canada and Ukwanalis, British Columbia, Canada
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Previous Owner
- James Dick
- Received from
- James Dick (Seller) and H. R. MacMillan (Funding source)
When
- Ownership Date
- before 1953
- Acquisition Date
- during 1953
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 27
- Accession Number
- 1859/0004
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