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.Artist not recorded
18th-19th century
ca. 1975
1890–99
Mid-to-late 20th Century