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Button blanket


Dancing blanket
Tlingit or Haida
1865–80

Medium/Technique Fulled wool; twill, embroidered with shells and mother-of-pearl buttons.
Dimensions Height x width: 144.8 x 181.6 cm (57 x 71 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession Number2007.498
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionOlive wool trade blanket with black stripes, decorated with figure of beaver executed in dentalium shells, red stroud cloth border with plaid center bordered with rows of export mother of pearl buttons, blanket loosely basted to black canvas.
ProvenanceDr. Bruce Ruddick (b. 1913 - d. 1992), Montreal and New York; May 1, 2007, sale, Whitaker Auction Co., Philadelphia, lot 219, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 27, 2007)