Dance Blanket with Diving Whale and Raven Motifs
Tlingit (Southeastern Alaska, United States)
Late 19th century
- 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…
- Classification
- Religious/Ritual Object
- Dimensions
- 176.1 × 138.5 cm (69 1/4 × 54 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Chilkat River
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Through prior purchase of the Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
