Object class: Accessories by location on the head / Object type: ethnography / Accession number: Acc.1527 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-144945, described as Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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.

Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 2-33826, described as Twined basketry hat with painted totemic designs; woven in two layers; green and purple dyed wefts used on interior. Made of cedar bark and rushes. Hat's exterior has brown, yellow, green, blue, and black painted bear design; bear ident. by Charles Brown (Tlingit) June 1964.