Canoe Paddle
2020-15-1
From: United States of America | Alaska | Chichagof Island | Hoonah
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2020-15-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Chichagof Island | Hoonah |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Creator | Donald Starbard |
| Date Made | 2017 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Spruce Wood |
| Iconography | Sea Otter | Clam | Sun | Kelp |
| Description | The object is a Hoonah canoe paddle made and painted by Donald Starbard (Wak'eesh). It depicts a sea otter, once hunted out during the fur trade but now in abundance once again in the Hoonah homeland of Glacier Bay, on his back eating a clam/sun symbol on its stomach surrounded by kelp/seaweed. |
| Length | 137 cm |
| Width | 17.5 cm |
| Depth | 4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Julian Siggers, 2020 |
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