Classic Northwest Coast Dance Blanket

Description:

Classic Northwest Coast Dance Blanket, Chilkat, c. late 19th century, finger-woven in mountain goat wool and cedar bark warp strands, dyed yellow, green-blue, and black, depicting a diving whale and abstract raven profiles, (some fading to front),lg. 70 in.

Provenance: Collected by Samuel D. Stevens in 1920, copies of letters from the Field Museum, Chicago included; property of a New England historical society.

Literature: The Basketry of the Tlingit and the Chilkat Blanket, by George T. Emmons, p. 376, fig. 66A.
Estimate $20,000-30,000

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