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This button blanket, Gwiis-ganm’ala’a (button blanket) circa 1900, owned by the Laxgibuu, Nisga’a is being reproduced at the Nisga’a Museum this summer. It’s size is 180 x 130 cm (71 x 55 inches).
Century-old button blanket to be reproduced By Margaret Speirs THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
TERRACE - A 100-year-old button blanket is getting a new life as the Nisga’a Museum prepares to make a reproduction of it. The museum is creating a full-scale replica of a button blanket from the Laxgibuu (wolf) tribe of the Nisga’a Nation. “We are making it so that it can be handled and part of our ‘education collection,’ said museum director Darrin Martens, adding that although the museum also has the original, the reproduction will let visitors see how these types of blankets were made traditionally. The original blanket was repatriated to the Nass Valley in 2010 from the Royal British Columbia Museum as part of the
historical Nisga’a Treaty. It is currently at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa being cleaned and repaired so that it can be put on display under glass at the Nisga’a Museum “so that visitors and schoolchildren can see the differences and similarities between the two and why taking care of things is so vitally important,” said Martens. The history and narrative behind the original button blanket are unique: the “people at [the] time of [the] story were starving. The chief went hunting and saw a gaunt wolf which came up to him. The wolf was gaunt because he could not chew, having a bone stuck in the roof of his mouth. On seeing this, [the] chief immediately extracted the bone. Wolf then started talking and said that when the man heard wolf
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howl, he was to come to the place where the howling was going on. “One day, chief heard [a] long howl and immediately went to [that] place. He found the wolf and near him some mountain sheep and two bear which wolf said he must take home. This was in payment for the operation. This did not happen on the upper Nass but somewhere between Prince Rupert and Inverness.” According to one of Dr. Charles S. Newcombe’s notebooks in the Royal British Columbia Museum archives, the blanket was originally sold to Newcombe in 1911 from Henry Smart of Gingolx. In discussions with Bill Moore (Sim’oogit Duuk) of the Laxgibuu, a descendant of Smart and symbolic owner of the image and its story, approval was grant-
ed to create a replica of the original button blanket. Fran Johnson, the museum’s manager and a member of the Laxgibuu, will lead the project, and will be assisted by two summer students from Laxgalts’ap. “We want the blanket to [look] like the original piece, so therefore we are using a three point grey Hudson Bay blanket, red melton wool fabric and mother of pearl buttons. Also, to ensure the blanket is pretty close to the original piece, the design and all buttons will be hand sewn,” she said. The project has begun and continues through August and the public is invited to come see the work being done. The team will work on the project in the museum’s education room Monday thru Friday from 1:30-3 p.m.
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