Button Blanket
| Object Number: | 95-25-1 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Haida |
| Provenience: | Canada Queen Charlotte Islands |
| Culture Area: | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Maker: | Dorothy Grant Robert Davidson |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Cashmere Shell Glass Sequin Cotton Thread |
| Technique: | Applique |
| Iconography: | Eagle |
| Length: | 139 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd., 1995 |
Description
Button dance blanket of cashmere depicting "eagle giving birth to itself." Made by Dorothy Grant with graphic design by Robert Davidson. Eagle design in red applique on black ground. Eagle is framed on three sides by red border with single row of white mother of pearl buttons on sides and double row of buttons at upper border. Eagle design outlined with buttons and white heart and white glass beads. Eagle eye is large black and white button. Signed on back "RD and DG." There are 1, 327 buttons.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd. 1987. Hands of Creation: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Art.. Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 18 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 41, pl. 36 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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