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.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
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:
length 67 centimeters and width 56 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)