Painted wooded pattern board for weaving a Chilkat style robe. The panel is somewhat rectangular except for the bottom right corner which is cut off at an angle. There is a rectangular human-like face at the centre front, above which is an eye form containing a frog face. Below the rectangular form are two inverted eye forms, to the right of which is a foot with claws. Above, are two more eye forms. At the midpoint of the side edge is a rectangular profile human-like face looking inwards towards the centre. Back is undecorated.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988 NOTES CONCERNING NEW COLLECTIONS. LOWIE, ROBERT H. (ED) ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS, 4, 1910 THE CHILKAT BLANKET. EMMONS, GEORGE T. MEMOIRS, 3, 1907

THE TRANSFORMING IMAGE: PAINTED ARTS OF NORTHWEST COAST FIRST NATIONS. MCLENNAN, BILL AND KAREN DUFFEK, 2000, Publisher: UBC PRESS. VANCOUVER/TORONTO NOTES CONCERNING NEW COLLECTIONS. LOWIE, ROBERT H. (ED) ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS, 4, 1910

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 BLANKET. EMMONS, GEORGE T. MEMOIRS, 3, 1907

This object is identified in Anthropology catalogue ledger book as a "Chilkat blanket pattern board." The word Chilkat was mistranscribed on catalogue card as Clilkat. See related objects E209964 and ET15491. See Fig. 404, p. 187, in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Pattern board at top appears to be this object.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=289 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Pattern board, Tlingit.Shgen George, a weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this pattern board is a diving whale.

The paint is black.