Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Rattle
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), 1900-1932
Scroll
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Rattle
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, red and black pigments, graphite, sinew, 12 13/16 × 5 1/8 × 4 15/16 in. (without base) (32.5 × 13 × 12.5 cm.)
base: 1 13/16 × 4 1/16 × 3 3/4 in. (4.6 × 10.3 × 9.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1992.254
Rattle has sculpted and painted human face on the front and painted formline face on the back. Rattle constructed in two halves, each half is bowl and handle; bowls tied together with sinew, handle pegged together.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1992; Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore.
"BMA Today," June 1994, ill. pp. 16-17.
Wayne Suttles, volume ed., "Northwest Coast," in "Handbook of North American Indians," William C. Sturtevant, general ed., Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990, vol. 7, p. 24, 250-251, 280.
Audrey Hawthorn, "Kwakiutl Art," Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 8, 16, 94-95, 99-100.
Audrey Hawthorn, "Kwakiutl Art," Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 8, 16, 94-95, 99-100.
