Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-230669
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010230669
Alternate number:
57 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2563
Description:
Hat, twined basketry; 3 areas of red-brown designs which are somewhat rectangular with straw (ground) colored triangles within.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
1925
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:
1969
Context of use:
Woman's dress cap.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 16 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-230669, described as Hat, twined basketry; 3 areas of red-brown designs which are somewhat rectangular with straw (ground) colored triangles within.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-230669, described as Hat, twined basketry; 3 areas of red-brown designs which are somewhat rectangular with straw (ground) colored triangles within.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-230669, described as Hat, twined basketry; 3 areas of red-brown designs which are somewhat rectangular with straw (ground) colored triangles within.

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