Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLORS IN YELLOW, BLUISH GREEN, AND BLACK. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN: CROSSROADS ON CONTINENTS, SEPT 22, 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 449, P. 311." Crossroads caption identifies as "Early in the 19th century Tlingit weavers began to make dancing robes completely covered with formline patterns derived from their painted art. The figures represented were crest animals, but they were often so conventionalized that their identity is not clear. A creature like this one on a nearly identical blanket was described to George Emmons as a "sea bear," while to Franz Boas it was identified ads a "standing eagle.""
label: Notes
content: EVELYN VANDERHOOP, HAIDA WEAVER, IDENTIFIES THIS CHILKAT BLANKET AS A MIX OF MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL AND COMMERCIAL YARNS.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=351 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.
label: Notes
content: Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket likely features an eagle design.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southeast, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Chilkat
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357445-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe