Wearing Blanket
- Artist Culture
- Sioux
- Date
- c.1910
- Material
- Wool cloth, tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, and ribbon
- Made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Textiles
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 322
- Dimensions
- 43 × 50 in. (109.2 × 127 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection, Gift of Mrs. Donald Danforth Jr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 79:2012
NOTES
Trade blankets were sometimes embellished with beaded blanket strips such as this one. The strips were attached along the horizontal or vertical center of the blanket, which would create a striking pattern on the back of the person wearing it.