Original description: Design is section of Chilkat blanket; totemic designs (4 raven heads) in twined mountain goat wool and some commercial yarn in orange, blue, black, white and yellow. Fringed. Per Bill Holm (1977) made by Mrs. Mary Hunt, daughter of the chief at Tongass. Her husband was Scottish-born employee of the Hudson Bay company. She made other textiles like this (in shape of Kwakiutl dance apron) for her children as dance aprons. Her son, George Hunt, was informant for Boas and many other anthropologists. George hunt married a Kwakiutl woman. Design in this is not Tlingit. No cedarbark in warp., Many other technical differences in manufacture of her weavings from conventional Tlingit (Chilkat) weavings.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Fort Rupert, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast, Fort Rupert if by Mary Hunt.
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Maker or artist:
Mary Hunt
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
1934
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Aprons (main garments) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1932
Context of use:
Dance apron.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 56 centimeters and length 67 centimeters
Comment:
... Kwakiutl dance apron) for her children as dance aprons. Her son, George Hunt, was informant for Boas and many other anthropologists. George Hunt married a Kwakiutl woman. Design in this specimen is not Tlingit. No Cedar bark in warp. Many other technical differences in manufacture of her weavings from conventional Tlingit (Chilkat) weavings.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown), S1963-1964 #91: Haida-Tlingit Organization, Oakland (May 30, 1964–June 1, 1964), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), and S1969-1970 #131: Dominican College of San Rafael/Sister M. Joanne (June 1, 1970–July 30, 1970)