Carved bowl, representing an eagle, feasting vessel.
Donor:
E. G. Schmiedell and Mrs. E. G. Schmiedell
Collection place:
Karlukwees, Turnour Island, British Columbia
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia; Turnour Island; Karlukwees
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Collector:
E. G. Schmiedell and Mrs. E. G. Schmiedell
Collection date:
1924
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
January 9, 1940
Context of use:
Feast vessel.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
18 inches, width 14 inches, and 10 inches
Comment:
See Acc. 904 (Mate to 2-19569?) Photo: 15-21191. Published: Ill. "The American West", Vol. VIII, No. 3, May, 1971, pp. 20-21; "Northwest Coast Indian Art from California Collections", U.C. Davis, 1980, organized by Barbara Iliff and L. Price Amerson; ill. p. 13 (#17) with text on p. 10 as follows: "Large feast vessels sculpted in the shape of animals, humans or canoes and brightly painted were especially favored by the Kwakiutl." According to the caption on p. 15 for this specimen (exhibit #36) the specimen was illustrated on p. 55 of Wardwell, Allen, "Yakutat South, Indian Art of the Northwest Coast", Art Institute of Chicago exhibit catalogue, and illustrated in Drucker, Philip "Cultures of the North Pacific Coast" (1965), #18. "Brit. Col. 13-1993".
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown), S1965-1966 #86a: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (May 19, 1966–September 6, 1966), S1973-1974 #49: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (November 4, 1973–August 8, 1974), S1979-1980 #48: University of California, Davis (April 1, 1980–June 9, 1980), and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)