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FROM CARD: "COLORS IN YELLOW, BLUISH GREEN, AND BLACK. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN: CROSSROADS ON CONTINENTS, SEPT 22, 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 449, P. 311." Crossroads caption identifies as "Early in the 19th century Tlingit weavers began to make dancing robes completely covered with formline patterns derived from their painted art. The figures represented were crest animals, but they were often so conventionalized that their identity is not clear. A creature like this one on a nearly identical blanket was described to George Emmons as a "sea bear," while to Franz Boas it was identified ads a "standing eagle.""EVELYN VANDERHOOP, HAIDA WEAVER, IDENTIFIES THIS CHILKAT BLANKET AS A MIX OF MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL AND COMMERCIAL YARNS.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=351 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket likely features an eagle design.