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Yakutat blanket. This complexity is accomplished, however, with 

 the addition of only a single technique: the double wrapped lattice 

 twining which appears only in the borders of that blanket. 



The Swift blanket was collected about 1800, without provenience, 

 although Willoughby considered it to be a northern British Columbia 

 coast product. I would consider it, in view of the subsequent remarks, 

 to be from farther north. 



Willoughby (1910, p. 8) notes that there is a dilapidated sample of a 

 geometric-patterned blanket in the British Museum collected in 

 about 1793. Kissell (1928, fig. 2 and p. 118: her text has the figure 

 numbers reversed; figure 3 is the Ottawa blanket illustrated by 

 Emmons, 1907, p. 388, and by Willoughby, 1910, pi. 2) states that this 

 blanket was probably collected by Vancouver somewhere between 

 Prince Frederick Sound and Lynn Canal in 1794, I have at hand a 

 series of notes from Arnold Pilling on the following manuscripts: 



Hewett, George Goodman: "Vancouver Voyage, Hewett Coll°." British 

 Museum Ethnological Document #1126. Manuscript catalogue written during the 

 Vancouver Expedition, 1793-1794. Original document in the British Museum. 



The following entries are noted: 



115 Namakizat Shoulder piece. 



110 do Bark garment. 



111 Mowachut or Nootka Sound Bark and wool garment. 



267 Rock Village Garment. 



None of these, it seems to me, can identify the British Museum speci- 

 men. However (also in the notes taken by Arnold Pilling), there is 

 mention of two blankets collected by the Cook Expedition in 1778 

 and presented to the Museum in 1789 by Joseph Banks. These 

 specimens are: 



NWC 49 Cloak of woven fibre with heavy fringe of rough fibre and twisted 



cord intermixed. 

 NWC 51 Robe of brown and white twisted cord of a woolen material 



woven in a diamond pattern: wool of the mountain goat. 



There is no way of determining the age of this catalog or whether 

 it is Banks' original notes or notes made by later museum workers. 

 However, I am satisfied that item NWC 51 is this fragment, and that 

 it was probably collected by Cook in 1778. It seems likely that Miss 

 Kissell assumed that it was collected by Vancouver because his 

 journals describe a native of the Lynn Canal wearing a robe of this 

 description. 



Neither Kissell nor Willoughby states that this blanket is of pure 

 mountain goat wool (though the catalog notes indicate that it is). 

 From the fragment pictured by Kissell I would state that this frag- 

 ment shares characteristics 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 with the Yakutat 

 fragments. There are no sections of top border pictured and it is 



