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There is no way of knowing the total number of rectangles in the 

 blanket. 



There are four fragments of side border, of which one may possibly 

 be a lower fringe corner as well. The largest of these measures 5 inches 

 long by 2 wide. The weft yarns, on reaching the edge of the blanket, 

 turn on the outside warp and begin the next course below. The 

 two outer warps are only slightly larger than the main body warps. 

 Alternate rows begin the twilled-twining by (a) twining between 

 warp 1 and warp 2, joining warps 2 and 3, and then proceeding to 

 double-warp twilled-twining and (b) twining between the single 

 warps 1, 2, and 3, to double warps 3 and 4, etc. Around each of the 

 (b) rows is attached the extra fringe of mountain goat wool; the larks- 

 head knot, with two cut ends, which forms the fringe is tied around 

 the first warp, embracing the (b) row of twining. This fringe is 

 now, at its longest, about 3 inches. The yarn is the Hght-colored 

 mountain goat wool, two-ply Z-twist and as fine as the weft. 



Worldng inward from the selvage, between the third and fourth 

 warps is a single vertical row of three-strand twining with fine dark- 

 brown yarns. The next 15 warps are twined with the light weft 

 yarns, but inserted between warps 18 and 19 is a very heavy (three- 

 sixteenths of an inch wide) vertical rov7 of three-strand dark-brown 

 twining. Both of these are woven into the wefts as the weaving pro- 

 ceeded to their longitude, even as the vertical lines of the rectangles. 



Immediately joining the heavy twined row (this connection has 

 since broken) is a group of seven wrapped bundles. This wrapping 

 resembles a loose coiling or sewing, inserted here in a vertical posi- 

 tion. I cannot picture it in the blanket; there is no counterpart in 

 ethnologic or known specimens, and these fragments were too disin- 

 tegrated to provide an answer. I can only surmise that they func- 

 tioned as the plaited bands which reinforce the sides of the Chilkat 

 blankets. Nothing of its sort is present on any of the geometric 

 blankets known. 



COMPARATIVE DATA 



The analysis of the blanket fragments may be summarized as 

 follows for comparative purposes: 



1. Warp and weft and decorative yarns are entirely of mountain goat wool. 



2. The construction is entirely twining: two-strand and three-strand. 



3. All of the twining wefts (excluding the dark rectangles in three-strand 

 twining) pass from selvage to selvage of the blanket. 



4. Decorative three-strand wefts were woven into the blanket; there is no sur- 

 face embroidery. 



5. Tassels of integral yarns suspend from some of the decorative elements. 



6. A fur border was sewn to the top of the blanket. 



7. Side selvages had an attached fringe of mountain goat wool yarns. 



