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Start Over Culture or time period North American native cultures Function 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes Loans S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957)
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-28588, described as Basket hat. Tag: Klamath R. River Tribes att. 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 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is six sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass rectangles with diagonal stacks of two triangles on either side. 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. There is an hair woven to the top of the hat.

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