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Ruth Hallows

Craft Archive Fellowship

2024

Weaving in a Good Way: Crafting Chilkat Blankets Among the Tsimshian People

This project will utilize archives in AK, WA, and BC to focus on the historical context and cultural significance of the ceremonial Northwest Coast craft contemporarily known as Chilkat. It seeks to recover and understand the history and protocols of Chilkat through the perspectives of the Tsimshian people.

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Mesa, AZ

$5,000

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Nüüm Batsda Da Gyemsax (Carry Us Home), the first Chilkat dancing blanket woven by a US Tsimshian since the 19th century. Photo: Sydney Akagi @sydneyakagiphotography

Ksm Lx'sg̱a̱n, Ruth Hallows, weaving braids to create the Formline Design in their first Chilkat dancing blanket. Photo: Sydney Akagi @sydneyakagiphotography

Photo Credit: AK Hallows

Ayuq wears Nüüm Batsda Da Gyemsax (Carry Us Home) at the Dancing of the Robes ceremony at Sealaska Heritage Institute. Juneau, Alaska, 2023. Photo: Sydney Akagi @sydneyakagiphotography

Shakes, John Alfred Hayward, great-grandfather of weaver Ksm Lx'sg̱a̱n. Metlakatla, Alaska ca. 1920. Photo: BA Haldane, courtesy of Jake Biehl private collection.