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Chilkat Blanket
unknownaround 1890
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
The Chilkat, a Tlingit sub-group, are famous for their dance blankets made of mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Delicately woven Chilkat blankets are part of the ceremonial clothing of high-ranking families. In the course of a Potlatch celebration, they were given as special awards or gifts.
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Details
- Title: Chilkat Blanket
- Creator: unknown
- Date: around 1890
- Physical Dimensions: w175 x h130 cm
- From the Tlingit people: Alaska
- Provenance: Linden-Museum
- Type: Textile
- Rights: Linden-Museum, Foto: Anatol Dreyer
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