The Company’s collectors traveled throughout the Southwest, California and along the Colorado River buying art for the marketplaces. in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The mask bore an undeniable resemblance to the 1976 logo the Seahawks later unearthed a 1975 Seattle PI article in their archives, in which Seahawks General Manager John Thompson identified the mask as THE definitive inspiration for the Hawks’ logo.Ī tag in the mask dated 1910 includes a catalog number from the Fred Harvey Company, which operated hotels, restaurants, and Indian marketplaces throughout the southwestern U.S.
When Wright broached the subject with Curator Emeritus Bill Holm, he pointed her to a photograph of a Kwakwaka’wakw (pronounced: KWA-kwuh-kyuh-wakw) eagle mask in Robert Bruce Inverarity’s 1950 survey, Art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Wright’s art history students were curious about the design influence for the Seattle Seahawks’ original logo. In the lead-up to last year’s Super Bowl, Burke Museum Curator of Native American Art Robin K. What a year it has been! Now, as the Seahawks prepare to "re-Pete" their visit to the Super Bowl, here’s what we’ve learned so far about the mask that inspired the logo. It’s been one year since we first explored the connection between a Native mask from the Pacific Northwest and the original Seattle Seahawks logo.
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