Object name: Basketry cap / Collection place: North America / Collector: Howard Alden Judy - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223995, described as Basketry. Decorated with dark triangles in groups of 3. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". 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 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 below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is eight sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal 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 Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223996, described as Basketry. Black designs. Twined. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow or 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 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 three elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with the capital letter i inside of each. 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 Basketry cap, accession number 1-223997, described as Basketry. Twined. Geometric designs in 2 bands of light and dark material. Tags "Klamath R. Tribes att.". There is an illegible tag glued on the exterior. The cap may have been coated with a consilodant at some point. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed woodwardia with beargrass and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three single steps in beargrass. 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.