Chief's Blanket

Item number 2991/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Large beige wool blanket with a long wool fringe at one end. Six stripes of stroud cloth (four brown, one red and one dark blue) are incorporated into the body of the blanket (after weaving). The red stripe also has a green piece of fabric woven in with it. (The thick twisted fringe has lost some pieces.)

Narrative

From the Thorne hop farm collection, Brackendale. Collected by the previous owners at the turn of the last century. It was assumed the blanket was from the Ch'iyáḵmesh area, however if the blanket came from hop pickers, who normally moved around from farm to farm, the blanket could have originated from another Salish location. Partial funding for this acquisition came from a donation by Dr. B. Focht and funds from the estate of G.W. Alcock.

Specific Techniques

The blanket appears to have wooly dog hair woven into it, but the materials have not been tested. The coloured fabric plaited throughout may be from Hudson’s Bay blankets.