Basketry cap

Museum number:
TB-9
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21tb0000009
Description:
Per Ralph Shanks: Hat/ cap, black maiden hair fern overlay design, background overlay is bear grass, over conifer root. Design is four doubled black parallelograms with 2 bear grass squares inside the parallelograms.
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre) and Caps (headgear)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 16.3 centimeters and height 9 centimeters
Comment:
Possible match for 1-67913 or 1-223652 based on size.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basketry cap, accession number TB-9, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Hat/ cap, black maiden hair fern overlay design, background overlay is bear grass, over conifer root. Design is four doubled black parallelograms with 2 bear grass squares inside the parallelograms.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basketry cap, accession number TB-9, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Hat/ cap, black maiden hair fern overlay design, background overlay is bear grass, over conifer root. Design is four doubled black parallelograms with 2 bear grass squares inside the parallelograms.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basketry cap, accession number TB-9, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Hat/ cap, black maiden hair fern overlay design, background overlay is bear grass, over conifer root. Design is four doubled black parallelograms with 2 bear grass squares inside the parallelograms.

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