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Button Blanket7223

The wool is blue and red. The button is pearl.

Culture
Tlingit: Tongass
Material
wool and pearl button
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1-1654
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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Button Blanket1999-23/1

'In the Spirit of the Ancestors'-This robe is a collaborative effort between Haida artists Robert Davidson and Dorothy Grant. It was Dorothy's personal robe, worn by her on many ceremonial occasions in the 1980s and 90s. The dogfish design appliqud in the central panel is a crest of Grant's Yahgu'laanaas Raven clan.

Culture
Haida
Material
wool, button, pearl, bead and thread
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1-1494
Button Blanket2.5E1356
Button Blanket25.0/46
Button Blanket1994-18/1

The wool is blue, felt, and red. The thread is red and white. The button is mother-of-pearl. The button is abalone.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwagu'l
Material
wool, felt, thread, button, mother of pearl shell and abalone shell
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1989-116/1

The wool cloth is green and red. The button is white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wool cloth and button
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket25.0/274

The copper theme is a favorite with Kwakwaka'wakw artists. Representations of coppers are used as grave monuments, housefront paintings, and other objects, including button blankets. The button blanket is the traditional ceremonial blanket of the Kwakwaka'wakw. The general form is fairly uniform, with variations in the figures represented and in the details of the border designs. Most have as foundation a dark blue blanket, but green is not uncommon. All the materials in button blankets are products of trade. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
trade cloth, wool, cloth, button, abalone shell and burlap
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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