DepartmentTextiles-United States & Canada

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.