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Figure 25. — Diagrams of weave of Chilkat blanket from shaman's grave, Knight Island, 

 Yakutat Bay. (Not to scale.) a, Zigzag top portion of the Yakutat blanket, drawn by 

 Arlie Ostlie; b. One set of concentric rectangles of three-strand dark wool on light-colored 

 weft, central part of the Yakutat blanket (arrows indicate directions of yarn movements), 

 drawn by Irene Brion from sketch by Carolyn Osborne. 



over paired warps. There are 8 courses or rows of wefts to the inch 

 indicating 16 weft yarns. The decorative rectangles are accomphshed 

 in three-strand twining in which the yarns follow the outlines warp- 

 wise and weftwise (fig. 25, 6); the three yarns needed for the rectangle 

 were measured, halved and inserted at the midway point at the upper 

 left-hand corner of each rectangle. At this point one-half of the 



