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Blanket With Totemic Painting

Item number E316360-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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From card: "Woven of yarn made of dog hair and mountain goat wool; cape shape somewhat as in Chilkat and fringed on lower and two sides; painted with a totemic pattern of bear. Very rare." Described on p. 125, cat. entry 87 of Salish Weaving by Paula Gustafson, Univ. of Washington Press, 1980 as "Fibres: Mountain goat hair. Colour: Natural white; painted with totemic bear. Weave: Twill. Attributed to Cowichan; but may be Bella Coola"Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This robe is used for dancing. This ceremonial robe takes about 12 months to weave.