Blanket

Museum number:
2-17788
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1942AC
Description:
Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.
Donor:
Gordon W. Hewes and Minna Hewes
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Northwest Coast, Salish attr.
Culture or time period:
Coast Salish
Collector:
Gordon W. Hewes and Minna Hewes
Collection date:
pre-1942
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1942
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1.4 meters and width 1.55 meters
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #101: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 25, 1967–April 25, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1978-1979 #39: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colleen Beck (January 17, 1979–March 31, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Blanket, accession number 2-17788, described as Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Blanket, accession number 2-17788, described as Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-17788, described as Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-17788, described as Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-17788, described as Made of dog hair, twill weave; strips of thick dog hair, strips of rust and blue commercial cotton cloth woven in to divide textile into boxes. Has been cut, perhaps in potlatch.

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