Accession number: Acc.3877 / 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 Basketry cap, accession number 1-255540, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four butterfly shapes around it. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow and black lines. Two bands of sawtooth lines. Rim has four trapezoids. Tag "Klamath River Tribes". There looks to be some string used for stabilizing the breaks. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. 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 .25 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with diagonal lines running through them. 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 Basketry cap, accession number 1-255544, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center surrounded by black band with four hanging rectangles. Concentric bands of yellow, black and brown throughout. Main section has terraced black trapezoids and triangles zigzagging all the way around. Rim has four black trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern 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 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a stepped horizontal band with triangles inside, above, and below the 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. There are three hairs woven into the basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255545, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Dark brown with bands of yellow and black throughout. Main section has diagonally stacked yellow rectangles cut by brown lines. four black trapezoids. Label "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 2 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 four sets of diagonally stacked beargrass rectangles cut by diagonal lines. 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; perhaps Karuk based on the area of Riddell's family lived.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255541, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four pairs of brown "T"s. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow lines. Two sawtooth lines. Rim has four and one half trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches 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 four sets of three stacked parallelograms with four diagonal lines running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the Orleans area where Francis Riddell family lived.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255542, described as Basketry, twined. Domical. Top has brown center with concentric bands of yellow, black and browns throughout cap. Four pairs of diagonally stacked yellow trapezoids bisected by two black and brown zigzags. Black areas. Tag "Klamath River Tribes". 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 background is red-dyed woodwardia with designs in beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is a mix of plain and mostly three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .75 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of two stacked parallelograms with zigzags running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the main design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on Francis Riddell's family residence in Orleans.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255543, described as Basketry, twined. Domical. Top has brown center with concentric bands of yellow, black and browns throughout cap. Main section has three diagonally standing rectangular areas flanked by rows of triangles. Rim has black and yellow triangle motif. Tag "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of lattice twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background is conifer root. At the start are several weft rows of overlay of beargrass, woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. After that there is a band of beargrass at the row of lattice twining. The main design is made of three designs made of triangles surrounding a rectangle. That is followed by another band of beargrass. At the rim there are several sets of two beargrass triangles surrounding a maidenhair fern triangle. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with very little pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karok based on the history of Riddell's family in Orleans.