Bill Holm - Chilkat Tunics: Form, Figure, Function April 15, 2008

Compared to the excellent scholarship on the Chilkat blanket, little scholarship has focused closely on the Chilkat tunic. Spurred by George T. Emmons's note in 1907 that the tunic "commands double or treble the price" of the Chilkat blanket and that the Tlingit held their tunics in high esteem, this talk presents on-going research on Chilkat tunics, with special emphasis on the tunics (and possible tunic fragments) at the Burke Museum.