Dancing Cape Of Red Blanket - Button Blanket Or Robe

Item number E89198-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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From card: "4/4/1968 This specimen is missing but two specimens, unnumbered, may have been mistaken since they have red borders although the blanket is actually brown. Tentatively they are numbered 89,l98 A & B. - GP. Killer whale motif. 89198b- Illus. : CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS catalogue; Fig. 431. p.304." Crossroads caption identifies as: "Button Blanket, Haida. Squatting skeletized humanoids ... with wood dorsal fins emerging from their chests, cover the back of this appliqued dogfish button blanket. The dogfish, a clan crest, is recognized by its arched head and downturned, toothed mouth. Humanoid faces mark the joints of the fins, tail, and dorsal fins. A double row of buttons edges the red flannel border that frames three sides of the robe."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=185 , retrieved 5-17-2012: Button robe or button blanket, Haida.