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possible that elsewhere in the blanket there are design elements of 

 three-strand twining. Its boldness relates it to the Copenhagen 

 blanket. It shares the zigzag patterning with all the others. The 

 illustration shows no tassels. What is most interesting is the sug- 

 gestion of ^vrapped bundles at the lower border. A detailed analysis 

 of this blanket fragment is certainly a desideratum. 



A third known blanket, very inadequately described, is illustrated 

 by Boas (1951, pi. 10) and is a part of the collections of the Ethnologi- 

 cal Museum at Copenhagen. This blanket was formerly part of the 

 Leningrad collections and was acquired by early Russian explorers on 

 the coast. It seems possible that it could have been collected by 

 Lisiansky, who described Indians wearing tasseled blankets at Sitka 

 (Kissell, 1928, p. 117) in 1805. Dr. Birket-Smith very kindly sent 

 photographs of the blanket (Museum No. K.c.119) including enlarge- 

 ments of details. Its overall similarity to the Yakutat blanket and 

 the Swift blanket is very apparent. The horizontal diamond bands 

 and the zigzag bands are of the same temporary-lattice type twine 

 weave as has been noted for both of the preceding blankets. It 

 would seem to share characteristics 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, and 10 with the 

 Yakutat robe, lacking only the fur binding and decorative three- 

 strand tmning. The tassels appear to be inserted yams. Its design 

 elements are bolder in overall pattern than either the Yakutat or 

 Swift blanket; it lacks the lighter design of concentric rectangles or 

 "lazy" H's. 



In all three of these blankets the zigzag designs are separated by 

 vertical bars. The Swift and Copenhagen blankets share the hori- 

 zontal diamond pattern. The British Museum specimen has a zigzag 

 border both horizontal and vertical, as do the Copenhagen and the 

 Swift. This pattern does not appear to have been present in the 

 Yakutat blanket, but, of course, the fragmentary condition of the 

 specimen does not permit a positive statement of the absence of the 

 pattern. 



Only the Yakutat blanket has wrapped bundles. None of the 

 four has the sewn-on plaited band or bands of the Chilkat blanket. 



A blanket which stands as unique up to the present is the often- 

 illustrated cedar-bark and wool blanket (Emmons, 1907, pi. xxiv, 1; 

 Boas, 1951, pi. xi) in the British Museum. It would seem that this 

 cape or blanket ^ is probably the "111" of the Hewett Collection of 

 the Vancouver Voyage (see Arnold Filling's notes, mentioned above, 

 p. 194): 



111 Mowachut or Nootka Sound — Bark and wool garment. 



« All-cedar-bark garments are commonly called capes, while the wool and wool and cedar-bark garments 

 are generally referred to as blankets. The term "cape" is certainly more accurate in a functional way. 



