Collection place: North Central California / Accession number: Acc.13 / Function: 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-306, described as Plain twined, bands etc in black and light brown. Tag "Pomo" crossed out. Second tag "4". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below a central maidenhair band. 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 Northwestern California, possibly Yurok based on the design.