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Button Blanket2.5E946
Button Blanket7223

The wool is blue and red. The button is pearl.

Culture
Tlingit: Tongass
Material
wool and pearl button
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1-1495

Walter Waters collected this blanket from the Tlingit, probably at Wrangell, Alaska. The chief crest of the Kiksadi, the principal Raven clan at Wrangell, is the frog, here depicted in a flamboyant triple row of buttons. Red flannel lines its mouth and underlies the large buttons in the eyes, feet, nostrils, vertebrae, and hips. The bands of buttons are utilized as modified formlines. The same exuberant use of buttons in multiple rows characterizes the border. Saltwater pearl buttons are very reflective, and the rippling of the button applique in firelight suggests molten silver. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Tlingit: Stikine
Material
wool, trade cloth, flannel, button and pearl
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Button Blanket1999-23/1

'In the Spirit of the Ancestors'-This robe is a collaborative effort between Haida artists Robert Davidson and Dorothy Grant. It was Dorothy's personal robe, worn by her on many ceremonial occasions in the 1980s and 90s. The dogfish design appliqud in the central panel is a crest of Grant's Yahgu'laanaas Raven clan.

Culture
Haida
Material
wool, button, pearl, bead and thread
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Bowl1994-7/4
Sculpture | Argillite2004-2/4
Button Blanket1994-18/1

The wool is blue, felt, and red. The thread is red and white. The button is mother-of-pearl. The button is abalone.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwagu'l
Material
wool, felt, thread, button, mother of pearl shell and abalone shell
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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TableN2.545

Table carved from wood with a landscape scene depicting trees, a small house, mountains and sailboats in gold, black, and mother of pearl on a brown-red brown lacquered ground. The table sits on four legs that curl outwards, and the table base is ornamented with a slightly raised scrolling design above each leg as well as at the centre of the longer sides.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, mother of pearl shell, lacquer and paint ?
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fish Hook2670/4

Fish hook of three pieces that are held together with twined and braided cord. The main body is of light-coloured bone and has a flat piece of shell covering one of its sides. The third piece is an orange tortoise shell hook with a single barb that protrudes from the side opposite the shell.

Culture
Polynesian
Material
tortoise shell, whale bone, black pearl shell and fibre
Made in
Pacific Islands
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BroochN1.310

A metalwork brooch with a rectangular shape that tapers slightly at one end and has both ends rounded. The brooch is made of inlaid light blue kingfisher feathers outlined with metal and is decorated with a pearl(?) in the middle of an auspicious character, with a pink stone below.

Culture
Chinese
Material
pearl ?, gemstone mineral ?, kingfisher feather, silver metal and gold metal
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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