Shoulder Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Mar 1956
label: Collection Date
content: 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Caroline E. Bates
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Henrietta B. Brooke
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHOULDER BLANKET, CHILKAT INDIANS (SUBDIVISION OF TLINGIT.) CONSISTS OF CONVENTIONALIZED WEAVING OF YARNS OF WOOL OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND CEDAR BARK; DYED IN COLORS: YELLOW, BLACK AND GREEN, WITH SEPARATOR STRIPES IN NATURAL WHITE. DESIGN PATTERN DIVIDED INTO THREE FIELDS; CENTRAL WITH ANIMAL HEAD, AND TWO LATERAL PANELS (SEE BOAS, "PRIMITIVE ART, PP. 257-262). RECTANGULAR, WITH FLAT V-SHAPE FRINGED BOTTOM. ACQUIRED BY DONOR'S MOTHER IN ALASKA ABOUT 1900."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lynn Canal (Head Of), 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: 209938
label: USNM Number
content: E393523-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket