Button Blanket
NA9485
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA9485 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wool | Shell | Silk |
| Iconography | Blanket of Peace |
| Description | Rectangular button blanket titled the "Blanket of Peace." Black wool ground with red wool flannel borders and sewn on white shell buttons in design of six rectangular panels. White shell buttons in rows of three outline top three rectangles and frame the blanket's rectangles below. Worn over the shoulders. The collar clasp is decorated with two rows of shell buttons. |
| Length | 128.2 cm |
| Width | 164 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923 |
| Other Number | 26 - Field No SF |
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