amnhnyc:More than a century old, this Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw feast...

amnhnyc:

More than a century old, this Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw feast dish depicts a killer whale with a human head and a second human head within its dorsal fin. The human is Siwidi, a mythic hero who travels undersea in a canoe that transforms into a killer whale.

See it in Whales: Giants of the Deep. 

© AMNH/D. Finnin