Cap

Museum number:
1-98000
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1158
Description:
Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. 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 Northwest California.
Donor:
Mary Lea Heger Shane and Mr. C. Donald Shane
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1880
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1955
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
15.7 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-98000, described as Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. 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 Northwest California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-98000, described as Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. 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 Northwest California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-98000, described as Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. 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 Northwest California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-98000, described as Basketry. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Second tag "Yurok att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two diagonally stacked beargrass parallelograms with diagonal stacks of four maidenhair fern rectangles on the inside. 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 Northwest California.

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