1880s
Height 25 1/2 Width 40" including fringe
Provenance: Private Florida collection
This dance apron was made by a woman of the Chilkat of the Tlingit people. It was made on a half-loom, a loom with a single cross bar from which the warp was suspended, leaving the lower ends to hang free. It is made of a core of shredded cedar bark wrapped in mountain goat hair. The design of highly stylized totemic animals and birds in abstract forms in blue, yellow, black and white would have been copied from a pattern board painted by one of the hi ranking men. Only the weft was dyed using the distinctive dyes that produced the three colors.
1880s
Height 25 1/2 Width 40" including fringe
Provenance: Private Florida collection
This dance apron was made by a woman of the Chilkat of the Tlingit people. It was made on a half-loom, a loom with a single cross bar from which the warp was suspended, leaving the lower ends to hang free. It is made of a core of shredded cedar bark wrapped in mountain goat hair. The design of highly stylized totemic animals and birds in abstract forms in blue, yellow, black and white would have been copied from a pattern board painted by one of the hi ranking men. Only the weft was dyed using the distinctive dyes that produced the three colors.
