Search

Start Over Object name Basketry cap Taxon Erethizon dorsatum
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-20850, described as Basketry cap with design in brown and yellow (porcupine quills).
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-20849, described as Twined basketry with decorative design in black and yellow (porcupine quills).
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches 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 triangles above and below three 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.

Limit your search

more »

View larger »

View larger »