Model Whale Item Number: 97 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This model whale is one of the more naturalistically carved in Northwest Coast art. Even if it represents a minke whale, the smallest of the fin-backed baleen whales known to the Makah, it is only half as long as it ought to be in relation to the model canoe it accompanies. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is blue.
Item History
- Received from Washington World's Fair Commission
What
- Name
- Model Whale
- Identification Number
- 97
- Type of Item
- model whale
- Material
- wood and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and painted
- Overall
- length 35.0 cm, height 7.5 cm, width 13.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Makah
- Received from
- Washington World's Fair Commission
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Washington World's Fair Commission
- Motif
- Whale
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection