Dance Cape, known as a Button Blanket

Unknown Artist

1850–60

Dance Cape, known as a Button Blanket by Unknown Artist

Medium

Wool trade cloth, shell buttons

Dimensions

H. 60 1/2 x W. 77 1/2 in. (153.7 x 196.9 cm)

Classification

Textiles-Woven

Culture

Tsimshian

Department

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011

Accession Number

2011.154.181

Tags

DanceHuman Figures

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