Inside the Collections: Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples
May 20134:25 min
While highlights from the Museum's collection of artifacts from the Pacific Northwest Coast are on display in the Northwest Coast Hall, more than 13,000 objects are kept in storage in the Division of Anthropology. Join Curator of North American Ethnology Peter Whitely as he leads a tour of the collections, which includes a giant Kwakwka'wakw whale mask, a Chilkat blanket with three different interpretations of its abstract symbolism, and a Haida/Tsimshian raven rattle. Visitors can also find a number of whale-related artifacts from the Anthropology collections in the Museum's special exhibition, Whales: Giants of the Deep, open through January 5, 2014.