Object name: Basket hat / Object type: ethnography / Culture or time period: Northern California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket hat, accession number 1-148886, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. 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 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 three sets of two stacked parallelograms with two stacked trapezoids and a triangle on their interior. 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, perhaps Yurok based on the area of collection.