A Northwest Coast button blanket
2034
A Northwest Coast button blanket
Using red cloth applied to a green wool blanket, showing an eagle and fish, mostly accented with mother-of-pearl buttons though commercial buttons present as well.
size approximately 4ft 5in x 5ft 9in
Sold for US$ 3,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Mrs. Harry Joe, Alert Bay (Kwakiutl territory), Alaska; the Norman Feder Collection, purchased at auction in 1980

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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