A Tlingit Button Blanket

composed of wool cloth, cotton thread and mother-of-pearl buttons, sitiched with an eagle design.

Judith Reiter Weissman and Wendy Lavitt, Labors of Love, America's Textiles and Needlework 1650-1930, New York, 1987, p. 235

Good original condition, with typical wear for its age.
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See Bill Holm, Box of Daylight, Seattle, 1984, p. 61: "With the introduction of woolen cloth by European and Euro-American traders in the last years of the eighteenth century, ceremonial dress of the Northwest Coast tribes began a change that culminates in the development of the button blanket...A crest animal was usually worked out in flannel appliqué, often outlined in iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons."