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Chilkat|ˈtʃɪlkæt|
Also Chilcat.
[Tlingit djîłqā′t, a place-name, said to mean ‘storehouses for salmon’.]
(A member of) a subdivision of the Tlingit Indian people in Alaska; used attrib. to refer to the blankets which they make.
1836Archaeologia Americana II. 302 Commencing on the north, from lat. 59° to lat. 55°, there are found ten or more petty tribes that speak the Sitka language, viz. the Chilcart, one of the most numerous and powerful of these tribes; [etc.]. 1844J. Dunn Hist. Oregon Terr. xvii. 288 A little to the northward of this there is a tribe called the Chilkasts. 1890Internat. Archiv Ethnogr. III. 8 The beautifully woven Chilkat-blankets are used as far south as Comox. 1907G. T. Emmons in Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. III. 329 ‘Chilkat blanket’ is an expression, coined in recent years, current among Europeans, but meaningless to the natives, except in a commercial sense. 1966Sat. Rev. 22 Oct. 27/1 These works by Tlingit, Tsimpshian, and Itaida Indians include..dance sticks, magnificently woven Chilkat blankets, baskets, [etc.]. |