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A TLINGIT CEREMONIAL DANCE BLANKET, CHILCAT
of classic form, finger woven with commercial wool in yellow, blue, ivory and black, mountain goat's wool and twisted cedar bark fiber, with a highly stylized totemic crest design, probably representing a killer whale, composed of typical conventionalized formline elements, a panel of long twisted fringe at bottom, smaller panels of twisted and plaited fringe along the sides, with tag sewn onto the reverse, inscribed, 1-82.5.21.2
Dimensions: 70 x 35 in. (177.8 x 88.9 cm.)
of classic form, finger woven with commercial wool in yellow, blue, ivory and black, mountain goat's wool and twisted cedar bark fiber, with a highly stylized totemic crest design, probably representing a killer whale, composed of typical conventionalized formline elements, a panel of long twisted fringe at bottom, smaller panels of twisted and plaited fringe along the sides, with tag sewn onto the reverse, inscribed, 1-82.5.21.2
Dimensions: 70 x 35 in. (177.8 x 88.9 cm.)
Provenance
Ex-collection: de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA