Button Blanket Item Number: 1-1495 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The wool is blue and trade cloth. The flannel is red. The button is pearl.
Exhibit Label
Walter Waters collected this blanket from the Tlingit, probably at Wrangell, Alaska. The chief crest of the Kiksadi, the principal Raven clan at Wrangell, is the frog, here depicted in a flamboyant triple row of buttons. Red flannel lines its mouth and underlies the large buttons in the eyes, feet, nostrils, vertebrae, and hips. The bands of buttons are utilized as modified formlines. The same exuberant use of buttons in multiple rows characterizes the border. Saltwater pearl buttons are very reflective, and the rippling of the button applique in firelight suggests molten silver. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
Item History
- Received from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
What
- Name
- Button Blanket
- Identification Number
- 1-1495
- Type of Item
- button blanket
- Material
- wool, trade cloth, flannel, button and pearl
- Manufacturing Technique
- sewn and appliqued
- Overall
- length 170.0 cm, width 139.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit: Stikine
- Received from
- Mrs. Walter C. Waters
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from Mrs. Walter C. Waters
- Motif
- Frog
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection