Button Blanket Symbols
by Kyle and Gabriel.
Button blankets usually have a picture or a crest of an animal on the back. They only use animals that live in their community like: raven, killer whale, eagles, beaver and wolf.
Then they use three basic shapes to decorate inside the animal design. One shape is called The ''U'' form. The second shape is called an Ovoid. There is also an inner Ovoid that goes inside a larger Ovoid. The last shape that is used is called the ''S'' or ''Z'' shape.
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This is called a ''U'' form. |
| This is called an Ovoid. | |
| This is called an inner Ovoid. | |
| These are the ''S'' and ''Z'' shape. |
Mr. Haines drew an eagle shape for us and Ms. Fidler made templates using "Paint" software so
we could copy and paste symbols into an eagle shape. Somtimes we had to flip or
rotate the symbols. View the templates below. If you'd like to download the
"Paint" files to your computer please right-mouse click on the links directly
below:
eagle1.bmp and eagle2.bmp
