Chilkat blanket

Museum number:
2-38462
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1919
Description:
Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.
Donor:
Hamlin-Jose Pony Express Foundation
Collection place:
Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Juneau
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
Daniel Cowan Jackling and Hamlin-Jose Pony Express Foundation
Collection date:
1913
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Chilkat blankets (blanket types) and Chilkat blankets (wearing blankets)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1964
Context of use:
The blanket was handed down from generation to generation among the Chiefs." (according to card received with item).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 164 centimeters and 85 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: According to card received with item: "The Chilkat tribe ranges from No. B.C. to Aleutian Islands. Sitka and Wrangel were tribal headquarters in much of 19th century. This blanket is very old, made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven. Colorings from roots, barks of trees, and wild berries. Green from chalcopyrite (double sulphide of copper and iron) mixed with squaw's urine...(We are told General D.C. Jackling paid a fabulous sum for this blanket in 1913 in Juneau, when on one of his yacht trips with the Cyprus to his copper and gold mine near Juneau.)
Loans:
S1964-1965 #49: Alaska Alumni Association, California Chapter (January 15, 1965–January 18, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-38462, described as Yellow, light blue, and black; twisted cedar bark and wool warp; fringed. According to card received with item: "...made of wild goat, and mountain sheep, is finely woven.

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