Dance Blanket with Diving Whale and Raven Motifs

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

Late 19th century

Chilkat Tlingit
Southeastern Alaska, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Tlingit
Title: Dance Blanket with Diving Whale and Raven Motifs
Place: Northwest Coast (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1880–1900
Medium: Wool and bark, dovetail and single interlocking, discontinuous weft, alternate pair weft twining; extended float twining, eccentric weft twining, and three-strand weft twining; main warp cut fringe; edges of twill oblique interlacing terminating in cut fringe; additional knotted fringe
Dimensions: 176.1 × 138.5 cm (69 1/4 × 54 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior purchase of the Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1961.568
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George E. Emmons, “The Chilkat Blanket,” Memoirs American Museum of Natural History III, 4 (Dec. 1907): 344, 376, fig. 545, 566.
Allen Wardwell, Yakutat South Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, ex. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), 77–77, cat. 203.
Evan M. Maurer, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 314, cat. 501.
Else Regensteiner, Geometric Design in Weaving (West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1986), 46, pl. 3-17.

Art Institute of Chicago, Yakutat South Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Mar. 13–Apr. 26, 1964, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Native American Heritage: A Survey of North American Indian Art, July 16–Oct. 30, 1977, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, June 1–Oct. 28, 1985.
Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136, May 12–Nov. 14, 2017.

Mrs. Stuart Smith, by 1942 [this and the following according to correspondence with Denver Art Museum, Apr. 7, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]; given to Denver Museum of Art, 1942 [DAM inventory RC-7-G; incoming receipt RX3502, Mar. 30, 1961; copy in curatorial object file]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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