Chilkat Blanket Pattern-Board
Item number E209581-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
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Notes
This object is identified in Anthropology catalogue ledger book as a "Chilkat blanket pattern board." The word Chilkat was mistranscribed on catalogue card as Clilkat. See related objects E209964 and ET15491. See Fig. 404, p. 187, in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Pattern board at top appears to be this object.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=289 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Pattern board, Tlingit.Shgen George, a weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this pattern board is a diving whale.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Alaska, USA during 1900
- Received on March 28, 1901
What
- Name
- Chilkat Blanket Pattern-Board
- Identification Number
- E209581-0
- Type of Item
- pattern board
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
When
- Collection Date
- during 1900
- Acquisition Date
- on March 28, 1901
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- Accession Number
- 037750
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