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English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: CHILKAT CEREMONIAL ROBE. (nIBLACk) pendence, as was also the ornamentation ujion his weapons and his shield. In the S. \y. blankets bordered with a design woven in colors were used on ceremonial occasions, and with the ))road belts, white robes, and fringed sashes worn at marriage are interesting specimens of weaving and color treatment. The bril- liant Navaho blankets with their cosmic symbols are well known. The most re- markable example of the native weaver's skill is the ceremonial blanket and apron of the Chilkat tribe of Alaska; it is made of the wool of the mountain goat, dyed black, yellow, and green with native dyes over a warp of cedar-bark strings. A design of elaborate totemic forms cov- ered the entire space within the border lines, and the ends and lower edge were heavily fringed. According to Boas these garments probably originated among the Tsimshian. In the buffalo country women seldom ornamented their own robes, but embroidered those worn by men. Sometimes a man painted his robe in accordance with a dream, or pic- tured upon it a yearly record of his own

Text Appearing After Image: SIHASAPA (blACKFOOT Sioux) COSTUME deeds or of the prominent events of the tribe. Women wor^ the buffalo robe difterently from the men, who gathered

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