Woven Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Apr 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL DYED BROWN, YELLOW AND BLUE, WOVEN ON A WARP OF WOOL AND BRAIDED CEDAR-BARK FIBERS; DEERSKIN TYING STRAPS. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 216. 168,292 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75 LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988." Illus. Fig. 563b, p. 372, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.
label: Notes
content: Shgen George, weaver, and Shirley Kendall. elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The top of this blanket is stretched due to use. The design of the head of this suggests diving whale, but the absence of a tail leaves it unclear. Diving whale designs are not clan-specific. Shirley notes that she was told in a diving whale design, faces in the middle typically have a yellow mask, but if it's plain, the design is meant to relfect the spirit of the animal.
label: Notes
content: 5 lines of dark thread at the bottom right and left corners of the blanket along the edge's braiding represents the weaver's signature. Information recieved by Chilkoot Indian Association visit 8/29/2024.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska (not certain), United States (not certain), 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: 028072
label: USNM Number
content: E168292-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket