Blanket In Loom (3 Pieces)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1901
label: Collection Date
content: 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE LOOM IS A BAR SUPPORTED ON TWO LEGS - NO OTHER APPARATUS. THE WARPS ARE WHITE YARN AND FIGURES IN BLACK, BLUE AND YELLOW YARN ARE WORKED IN TWINED WEAVING PRECISELY AS IN MAKING BASKETRY. THE FIGURES ARE MYTHOLOGICAL. THE WEAVER IN THIS WORK CONTRARY TO OTHER AMERICAN EXAMPLES, HAD THE PATTERN NOT MERELY IN HER MIND BUT PAINTED ON A BOARD."
label: Notes
content: See related objects 209963, 209581 and T15491. See also the accession file, which contains a diagram and description of the loom done by Emmons. In a letter dated February 24, 1900, filed in Accession 40238, Emmons talks about getting a Chilkat blanket in process and accessories to be used on exhibit at the Smithsonian: "I know that I can get this from a family far up the Chilkat River in the goat country ..." In letters dated 5 and 9 October, 1900, filed in Accession 37889, Emmons talks about visiting the Chilkat (Chilkoot?) mountains and collecting the blanket in process from the upper Chilkat village in the mountains.
label: Notes
content: Per Haida artists Delores Churchill and Evelyn Vanderhoop, 2015, the blanket and associated separate bags of yarn include Haida made yarn and commercial yarn.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 16
place: label: Place
content: Southeastern, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Chilkat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037889
label: USNM Number
content: E209964-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket / Loom / Yarn / Wool / Bag / Sheet