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Cap Tail or Trailer11.694.8985

This otter skin cap tail would generally be worn around the neck or attached to a choker. It has a side edge of loom beadwork in white with red and blue designs. The blue cloth heart on the top edge is edged in white and red and is beaded on the reverse side. The support material which is hidden by the fur is covered with reverse appliqué ribbon work which conceals the fur fold and seams.

Culture
Osage
Material
otter skin, wool trade cloth, glass bead, commercially woven cotton trade cloth, silk ribbon, hide, feather and sinew
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Octopus Bag2223
Blanket yarn2.5E1803
Beaded Bag2.5E1359
Knife Sheath2464
Blanket yarn2.5E1804
Leggings1970

Leggings, called sakhsiksumsa, wraps one side of the leg, were sometimes made of trade cloth with a design in applique. Navy blue woolen blanket material forms the background, which is appliqued in red trade cloth. The figure represented is recorded in George Emmons's collection notes as a sculpin, a spiny fish with a very large mouth, which was a crest of the Ganhada phratry of the Tsimshian. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
trade cloth, leather, puffin bill and thread
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Work Bag1310
Tunic | Chief Shakes'1-1493

The wool is red and blue.

Culture
Tlingit: Stikine
Material
trade cloth, dentalium shell, abalone shell and wool
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1-1495

Walter Waters collected this blanket from the Tlingit, probably at Wrangell, Alaska. The chief crest of the Kiksadi, the principal Raven clan at Wrangell, is the frog, here depicted in a flamboyant triple row of buttons. Red flannel lines its mouth and underlies the large buttons in the eyes, feet, nostrils, vertebrae, and hips. The bands of buttons are utilized as modified formlines. The same exuberant use of buttons in multiple rows characterizes the border. Saltwater pearl buttons are very reflective, and the rippling of the button applique in firelight suggests molten silver. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Tlingit: Stikine
Material
wool, trade cloth, flannel, button and pearl
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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