A TLINGIT DANCING BLANKET, Chilkat
A TLINGIT DANCING BLANKET, Chilkat

細節
A TLINGIT DANCING BLANKET, Chilkat
Woven of plaited goat wool dyed yellow, blue and black with a black and yellow border surrounding a field with a mask in the center and various motifs representing eyes, ears, fins, wings and other elements with wool and cedar bark fringe, checkered tie offs at each end
66in. (167.7cm.) long
來源
Collected by Annie Hale Wetherell of Fall River, MA during her travels between 1880-1915.

拍品專文

This blanket woven in the so-called diving whale pattern, Samuel (1982, p. 41, no. 25, p. 43, nos. 28, 29; p.46, no. 35) publishes three other versions.