Blanket With Totemic Painting
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 May 1921
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Charles C. Hyde
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Woven of yarn made of dog hair and mountain goat wool; cape shape somewhat as in Chilkat and fringed on lower and two sides; painted with a totemic pattern of bear. Very rare." Described on p. 125, cat. entry 87 of Salish Weaving by Paula Gustafson, Univ. of Washington Press, 1980 as "Fibres: Mountain goat hair. Colour: Natural white; painted with totemic bear. Weave: Twill. Attributed to Cowichan; but may be Bella Coola"
label: Notes
content: Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This robe is used for dancing. This ceremonial robe takes about 12 months to weave.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cowichan (Quw'utsun) (?)
label: Culture
content: Bella Coola (Nuxalk) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 066584
label: USNM Number
content: E316360-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 107 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 168 cm