Tony A. (naschio) Johnson

Adam McIsaac

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Washington State Arts Commission

Tony A. (naschio) Johnson and Adam McIsaac worked as an artist team to create Guests from the Great River for the new Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. The piece consists of 11 large-scale bronze paddles representing the arrival of a Chinookan canoe carrying cultural heroes of the Columbia River region, and with them the knowledge they embody. The canoe paddles are lifted upright in a traditional form of peaceful greeting and respect to the museum and its guests.

Read the museum's blog post about the installation: https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/new-chinook-art-piece-welcomes-visitors-burke-museum