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Description

Blanket made of red wool with a blue wool border that has a yellow cotton seam binding on three sides. The beadwork is backed with rawhide and at the finished edge there is a strip of rawhide that froms a handle-like arc and another strip attached between the ends of the handle-like piece, each is beaded with yellow-brown, white and dark blue beadwork. Four white and dark blue beaded rectangles at finished edge. The beadwork on the blanket consists of four elongated arch shapes in white, turquoise, dark blue and yellow-brown above a mostly white beaded rectangle with a green and dark blue border near the edge and two sets of linear designs in dark blue and light blue with a vertical band of short green lines one either side of each, and two circular shapes in white with a red centre, a band of dark blue with yellow-brown rectangles, and evenly spaced blue dashes around the edges of each.

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The donor said this was originally collected by Col. James Peters, RCN, who came to Victoria as a Major in the Navy in 1887. Peters lived for many years in Esquimault and, according to family history, Peters also traveled to the Queen Charlotte Islands.