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Dzunukwa Feast Dish
Kwakwaka'wakw
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
early 19th century
cedar wood, paint, metal nails
height: 36 ½"
width: 14 ½"
Inventory # N3855
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acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
This monumental feast dish represents Dzunuk’wa, or “woman of the woods” a mythical being who lived deep in the woods and had a hunger for fish and human children (Boas 1897:372 and 1966, 307).
PROVENANCE
Reportedly descended through the family of Joseph Nathaniel Greene (b. 1893 at Fort Logan, CO)
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Jonaitis, Aldona. Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991 pgs. 198-199 and pgs. 200-201