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Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-67265, described as Basket cap. Almost completely overlaid; red on white ground. Mostly plain twined. Design includes repeating triangles.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-148887, 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. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a maidenhair background with beargrass designs. Black string was used to tie down the last weft row. 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 six elements comprised of triangle surrounded by six triangles. 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, possibly Wiyot based on the extensive use of black maidenhair fern background, or Yurok based on the comments on the catalog card. There is a hair woven into the basket near the start.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-67267, described as Basket cap. Almost completely overlaid; red on white ground. Design includes light and dark triangles. Mostly plain-twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, overlaid with beargrass. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is in red-dyed woodwardia, maidenhair fern, and beargrass. Where the maidenhair fern appears, it is overlaid on top of the beargrass overlay. 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 lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked rectangles with two double lines running diagonally 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 single-sided with some overlay on the backface, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Wiyot based on its association with 1-67265.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-67266, described as Basket cap. Almost completely overlaid; red on white ground. Design includes light and dark triangles. Mostly plain-twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three of elements made up of two sets of two stacked triangles. 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 some overlay on the backface, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Wiyot based on this basket's association with 1-67265. There is a hair woven into the basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255027, described as Basketry cap. Plain twined with half-twist overlay. Triangular design in wheat color on red-brown field, bands of dark brown and wheat color. Reinforced band around edge and crown. Edge broken in several areas and glued. Materials: Willow, white grass, stained and dyed woodwardia fern.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214288, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: red and black on light ground; a sunburst design appears on top of cap. Mostly plain-twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-10526, described as Basketry hat. Dirty and grimy, worn. White overlay; thin horizontal zigzags and stripes; 2- faced overlay. Mostly plain twined; 3-strand twining 2 cm radius from start; also a single row defines the design zones at 2.5 cm and 9 cm from rim. Tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Dome-shaped twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel (Corylus cornuta californica) warps and conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts, with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) overlay design. There is some string at the rim holding on a remnant portion of three weft rows of plain twining. Starting at the starting knot there is 3/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 2 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The design is primarily three horizontal rows of beargrass zigzags. The overlay is primarily single-sided with the main overlay on the exterior and some design on the interior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates. Three Cabins, where the documentation says this hat was made, is 16 miles south of Blue Lake, in Wiyot territory. It looks like other Wiyot hats Dawson described to Shanks, and the design is similar to what is called a man's design, but not enough is known about Wiyot or Nongatl hats to assign this as a men's hat from either culture.