51cg

Chilkat blanket

Chilkat blankets are highly valued by northern Tlingit and Tsimshian people. Woven in yellow cedar bark and mountain goat wool by women from designs painted by men on a pattern board, the blankets were worn at ceremonial occasions to show the clan crest of their owner, suspended over graves or displayed inside a house. This blanket features a design known in English as the 'diving whale'.

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