Dancing Blanket (Gwiis Halayt)
Location
Culture
Nisga’a
Title
Dancing Blanket (Gwiis Halayt)
Date
19th c.
Materials
Mountain-goat wool, inner cedar bark
Dimensions
143.1 x 173 cm (without the fringe: 87.1 x 173 cm)
Credits
Gift of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, inv. 1919.Ab.2
Collection
Decorative Arts and Design
This blanket is the first work given to the Art Association by the Canadian Handicraft Guild, in 1919, when F. Cleveland Morgan was the Guild’s president. Only the chest that contained it – later attributed to the Heiltsuk (Bella Bella) artist Captain Carpenter – was included in the exhibition Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern in 1928. Lent to McGill University later that year, it is now on deposit at the McCord Museum.
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