Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum . orty and fifty men, and madefrom a single log without any addi-tional boards or planks, there awonder at the patience and ingenuityof the people. Aside from its capacityand (itness for carrying freight andpassengers, and the case with whichthey are propelled, there are certaindegrees of buoyancy and speed thatcan only be found in boats constructedby the best boat-builders. The blankets and mantles made fromthe wool of mountain goats with many 16 ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM intricate figures worked in variousnatural colors, obtained fro
Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum . orty and fifty men, and madefrom a single log without any addi-tional boards or planks, there awonder at the patience and ingenuityof the people. Aside from its capacityand (itness for carrying freight andpassengers, and the case with whichthey are propelled, there are certaindegrees of buoyancy and speed thatcan only be found in boats constructedby the best boat-builders. The blankets and mantles made fromthe wool of mountain goats with many 16 ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM intricate figures worked in variousnatural colors, obtained from mineralsand vegetable matter, and all done by• hand work without the any ma-chine for the preparation of the wooland are works of perfect art, your won-der increases, especially when one con- siders that the art is of their own in-vention. For every phenomenon in nature theThlingits have their own reasons, theirown legends, songs and may not be very ingenious intheir conception, but they all differ onefrom the other,. ALASKA II 1 S T (1 i; 1 (• A I. M. U 8 fci Li M i: Phe Chilkat Klanket Lieutenant (Jeorpe T. Kmmons. [.S. Navy, who has made a very exten-sive study of the Thling-it arts , of the basket and blanketweaving, in his work on the ChilkatBlanket writes: The distinctive ceremonial robi ofthe several native tribes of the NorthPacific Coast, from Vancouver Islandto Prince William Sound, i-^ commonlycalled the Chilkat P>lanket, an ex-quisite piece of weaving in wool, asharmonious in coloring as it is originalin design, presenting in all its featuresthe highest development of the textileart throughout this region, and com-paring favorably with the best pro-ducts of other lands. From the testimony of those bestinformed, the first woven blanket wasknown as *Tahn or Thlaok-thlee(worked together blanket), a com-bination of twisted cedar bark and thewool of the mountain goat, showing aplain white field. Then followed theintro
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