NA-3198 AN EARLY NORTHWEST COAST CHILKAT DANCING BLANKET, Tlingit Tribe, ca. 1860s-’70.

Height: 52. in. (132 cm.); Width: 68 in. (173 cm.).

Provenance: From an old private Canadian collection of Northwest Coast Art. This piece was originally collected in Alaska.

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Masterfully woven of mountain-goat wool, hair & cedar bark, this is an earlier example of the "diving whale pattern", an excellent example of the 'Robe of Nobility'.