Dance Blanket
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1870
mountain goat wool, yellow cedar bark, natural dyes, sinew, thread
height: 52"
width: 62"
Inventory # N3753
Sold
acquired by the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
Provenance
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Donald Judd, New York, NY
This blanket was de-accessioned from the Pasadena Museum of Art to Donald Judd in 1971 in exchange for a Judd sculpture, and subsequently hung in Judd’s loft at 101 Spring Street, New York
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 60
Related Examples
Jonaitis, Aldona. From the Land of the Totem Poles. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988, pg. 33, pl. 16
Wardwell, Allen. Objects of Bright Pride: Northwest Coast Indian Art From the American Museum of Natural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978, pg. 80, pl. 49