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Start Over Object name Cap Donor Mary Lea Heger Shane
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-98000, described as Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwest California.

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