OBJECTS OF EXCHANGE: SOCIAL AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST COAST. GLASS, AARON EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2011, Publisher: BARD GRADUATE CENTER

THE CHILKAT DANCING BLANKET. SAMUEL, CHERYL, 1982, Publisher: PACIFIC SEARCH PRESS. SEATTLE.

OBJECTS OF EXCHANGE: SOCIAL AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST COAST. GLASS, AARON EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2011, Publisher: BARD GRADUATE CENTER

THE CHILKAT DANCING BLANKET. SAMUEL, CHERYL, 1982, Publisher: PACIFIC SEARCH PRESS. SEATTLE. PRIMITIVE ART. BOAS, FRANZ, 1951, Publisher: CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY THE CHILKAT BLANKET. EMMONS, GEORGE T. MEMOIRS, 3, 1907

Small rectangular weaving made mountain goat’s wool. The design consists of a brown eagle with yellow beak and legs. There is a stripe of brown above and below the bird; warp fringe on either end. Loom woven.

Rectangular, tie-dyed, dark red and black goat wool textile, decorated with off-white tie-dyed dots. The red central field has a large black circle in the centre and four smaller black circles. There are diamond-shaped clusters of white tie-dyed dots scattered throughout. There are black borders on all sides, embellished with rows of red and white linear and curvilinear designs formed by tie-dyed dots. The textile is constructed from two nearly-identical panels that are seamed together vertically down the centre, using a running stitch sewn with white thread. Woven gray-beige selvages are on the vertical edges, and there are woven cotton horizontal supplemental stripes at each end. A strip of black woven cotton textile (7.1 cm wide) is sewn at one end.

Rectangular wool robe with designs all around border and a long fringe along three edges. The off-white blanket has a narrow geometric border around all the edges; red and purple along the top and bottom and red, purple, blue along the sides. The off-white fringe runs along three edges with red strands between, evenly spaced all around.

Loom-woven off-white wool blanket, with four dark yellow interwoven stripes across the width. The bottom edge has a long twisted fringe.

Large loosely-woven wool blanket with fringe. There are three strips woven across the blanket width, predominantly brown. A large fringe hangs from the bottom edge of the blanket.