Twined basketry. Major design band is dark brown triangles with vertical straw - colored columns projecting. Alternate triangles face in opposite direction. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the cap as well as "IL" also in ink. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with maidenhair fern. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root, which is also the design background. The weft overlay design is maidenhair fern, red-dyed woodwardia, and beargrass. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of alternating direction maidenhair fern triangles outlined by smaller beargrass triangles. 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 Northwestern California. There are several hairs woven into the basket.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
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