Object class: Caps (headgear) / Collector: Rose Mary Dobbins Lloyd / Culture or time period: North American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-211606, described as Basketry hat. There is a rip near the rim. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes 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 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 a right triangle 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. There is a hair woven into the basket near the start.