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FROM CARD: "PROBABLY A CHILKAT DANCE LEGGING HAVING STANDARD CHILKAT MOTIFS AND BORDERED BY FRINGED LEATHER. SOME REPAIRS - FRAGILE - REMNANTS OF PUFFIN BEAK ATTACHMENTS. ILLUS.: THE SPIRT SINGS CATALOGUE; GLENBOW-ALBERTA INSTITUTE; 1987, #N17, P. 136. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987; LOAN RETURNED." Illus. in Fig. F, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Illus. Fig. 5, p. 46 in Pasco, Katie, 1997, "The Tsimshian Connection in Weaving the Painted Formline," American Indian Art Magazine, 22(2):44-51. Attributed there as Tsimshian, early nineteenth century. Mountain goat wool, yellow-cedar bark, leather, porcupine quills, yellow, black and green dye.