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Button blanket
Button blanket
Button blanket
Museum of International Folk Art

Button blanket

NameWearing blanket
Artist Artist not recorded
CultureNorthwest Coast
Place madeNorth America, Northwest, United States, North America
MediumWool, cotton, abalone, shell
DimensionsOverall: 49 7/16 x 60 5/8 in. (125.5 x 154 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Greg LaChapelle
Object numberA.2011.20.28
DescriptionWearing blanket with blue wool ground bearing abstracted form line depiction in orange wool of a whale with skeletal figures inside. The top and sides of the blanket have wide red cotton flannel borders decorated with thick chunks of abalone shell and groups of white shell buttons arranged in geometric groups. Abalone shell chunks also edge the blue ground along the top and sides. Shell buttons outline features of the whale and figures, and an abalone chunk centers the whale's eye.
Cuff links
Artist not recorded
1940s - 1950s
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Artist not recorded
ca. 1922
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ca. 1975
Bodice
1890–99
Necklace
Artist not recorded
ca 1975
Child's Talismanic Tunic
Mid-to-late 20th Century