Blanket Or Cloak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jul 1888
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of cedar bark and nettle fibre." From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label in card file: "Blanket - Made of cedar bark and nettle fiber, closely woven, and ornamented with a border of soft otter fur. Worn about the shoulders as a cloak. Kyoquaht Indians (Wakashan stock), 1888. Collected by Jas. G. Swan." Formerly on exhibit in NHB exhibit Hall 9, case 29, where exhibit label described it as: "cold weather cloak of twined cedar bark and nettle fiber."
label: Notes
content: Twined cedar bark and nettle fiber (according to exhibit label). Wool twisted with cedar woven into all borders. Arc-shape to neck area, and bottom rounded. Very soft otter fur tied to neck area.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 33 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth), Kyuquot
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 020957
label: USNM Number
content: E129985-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape