Hudson's Bay blanket

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• Hudson's Bay blankets were used as trade goods during the fur trade. This modern blanket has 31/2 points. Points (black lines on the blanket) indicated the thickness of the blanket. Used by the fur traders, each point denoted a value of 2 beaver pelts. This blanket would have traded for 7 beaver pelts. The green, yellow, red and black stripes on white are one type of HBC blanket. Others were red with black stripes.

• Date created

  2015-06-26

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Fur trade blankets
  • Photographs
  • Trade goods - Hudson's Bay Company
  • Point blankets
  • Fur Trade
  • Rupert's Land

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3Z54S

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International