The robe is more than 150 years old. This is the first time it’s been used in a ceremony for at least six decades.
Sainteen Anna Brown Ehlers wears a 150-year-old Chilkat robe that was recently returned to Southeast Alaska on March 1, 2024. on Friday.
Later, dancers performed a pair of spirit dances to, as the program says, “breathe life into the robe and welcome the ancestors home.” The robe is more than 150 years old. It’s woven in bold black lines with blue and yellow details and killer whales facing out from the middle. This is the first time the robe has been used in a ceremony for at least 60 years.
“We have been weaving Chilkat dancing robes long before these institutions existed and we will weave them long after we bring our ancestral work home,” she said. SHI President Ḵaaháni Rosita Worl said the Lingít word for art — at nané — means that an iconic event was visualized on an object. “It tells the story of our lineage, it tells the story of part of our migration, and the story of our fishing grounds,” she said. “So these robes that we wear are not just robes because we wear them for ceremony, but they carry within us.”
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