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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-1672, described as Woman's basketry dress cap. Plain twined (3 strand at start and 1 row in 2 places divides cap into design zones). Single faced overlay - white grass, maidenhair fern, and alder dyed Woodwardia fern.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-27174, described as Basketry cap. Twined. Triangles in white and maidenhair fern. Three tags "92", "Klamath R. Tribes Att." "Squaw Cap Klamath lev [?] Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, a black dyed material-possibly dyed confer root, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background is conifer root. Starting at the starting knot there is a half of an inch of conifer root with no overlay. The basket has multiple horizontal one weft rows comprised of maidenhair fern. A sun/flower pattern is formed by beargrass triangles at the start. The main design is formed by a several elements comprised of a triangle surrounded by smaller triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is only on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Wiyot. The Wiyot and peoples South of them were known to dye conifer root as seen in this basket.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-12802, described as Basketry. Plain twined tule.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-87101, described as Work cap. Maily plain twining. 3 strand twining continues from start to where the first zone divider of 3 strand would normally occur. Two encircling bands of yellowish white overlay 4 cm. from start. Near rim is extra single row of 3 strand twining. Plain twining. Conifer root, white grass.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-14381, described as Basketry. Small, old, no designs.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-27665, described as Basketry. Close twine, band of decoration.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-20848, described as Twined basketry with design in 3 bands.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum 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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, museum number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.