Whale Hat
1999
Preston Singletary is a renowned local Indigenous glass artist who began adapting traditional Tlingit designs in glass in the early 1990s. Whale Hat is one of his first glass hats, paying tribute to the dual artistry of women who create the spruce root hats and the men who paint them with crest designs.
Glass
Height: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Diameter at base: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Diameter at top: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Gift of R. Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell
2019.3.15
Provenance: [Vetri International Glass, Seattle, Washington]; purchased from gallery by Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell, Seattle, Washington, 1999; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2019
Photo: Scott Leen