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Raven Bringing Light to the World1998-90/190

The paper is white. The ink is dark blue, light blue, red, and yellow.

Culture
Haida
Material
paper and ink
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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T-Silii-AA-lis (Raven Finned Killer Whale)2.5E1954

The paper is white. The ink is black and red.

Culture
Haida
Material
paper and ink
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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T-Silii-AA-lis (Raven Finned Killer Whale)1998-90/189

The paper is white. The ink is black and red.

Culture
Haida
Material
paper and ink
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Lidded Basket2.5E678
Basket2.5E1535
Mat Needle1-2138
D-Adze | Adze Handle4612

Culture
Makah
Material
wood
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Basket1-10663
Lidded Basket1-1855
Tunic2

The ethnological collections of the Washington State Museum (now the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum) were greatly enlarged by the acquisition of the Emmons collection of Tlingit material at the close of the Alaskaka-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. At that time, curator Frank Hall began to catalog the collection. Perhaps arbitrarily, since Hall had to start somewhere, a pair of Haida dance shirts collected by James Swan for the Washington exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago were given the catalog numbers 1 and 2. The design on the front of the tunic represents a sea lion, while the one on the back is a killer whale, or orca. Killer whale and sea lions are crests of the Haida Raven phratry. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Haida
Material
trade cloth and wool
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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