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Feather blanket
Object Number 27-15-10/98238
Display Title Feather blanket
Descriptions
Inventory Description Brown and white feather blanket, banded design.
Classification
  • Blanket
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Maidu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Additional Geographic Terms Sacramento Valley; New Helvetia (Sutter's Ranch); Banks of Sacramento River
Materials Feather , Goose feather (white snow?) , Duck feather (mallard?) , Vegetable fiber Iris fiber (?) , Hemp fiber (?) (false amer. rhus typhia?)
Dimensions Overall: 162 x 110.5 x 2 cm (63 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Owner Capt. John Augustus Sutter (1841)
Collector Capt. William Dane Phelps (1841)
Donor Mrs. Charles C. Goodwin (June 1927)

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