Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-28563
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010028563
Accession number:
Acc.667
Description:
Twined basketry cap. White and black overlay designs; circular stripes and bands of triangles; single-faced overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by plain twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining for 2 3/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is in seven horizontal bands with no overlay in-between the bands. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior face with only a little beargrass on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Donor:
Gladys Ayer Nomland and University Appropriation
Collection place:
16-18 miles above Blue Lake, Mad River, Humboldt County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mad River; Upper Mad River
Culture or time period:
Nongatl
Collector:
Gladys Ayer Nomland, Minnie Pete, and Will Taggitt
Collection date:
July 1931
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:
1931
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-28563, described as Twined basketry cap. White and black overlay designs; circular stripes and bands of triangles; single-faced overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by plain twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining for 2 3/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is in seven horizontal bands with no overlay in-between the bands. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior face with only a little beargrass on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-28563, described as Twined basketry cap. White and black overlay designs; circular stripes and bands of triangles; single-faced overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by plain twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining for 2 3/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is in seven horizontal bands with no overlay in-between the bands. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior face with only a little beargrass on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-28563, described as Twined basketry cap. White and black overlay designs; circular stripes and bands of triangles; single-faced overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by plain twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining for 2 3/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is in seven horizontal bands with no overlay in-between the bands. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior face with only a little beargrass on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-28563, described as Twined basketry cap. White and black overlay designs; circular stripes and bands of triangles; single-faced overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by plain twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining for 2 3/4 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is in seven horizontal bands with no overlay in-between the bands. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior face with only a little beargrass on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

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