Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-255541
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010255541
Accession number:
Acc.3877
Description:
Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four pairs of brown "T"s. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow lines. Two sawtooth lines. Rim has four and one half trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with four diagonal lines running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the Orleans area where Francis Riddell family lived.
Donor:
Francis A. Riddell
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Francis A. Riddell
Collection date:
unknown
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:
1983
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 18.5 centimeters
Comment:
Riddell's ancestor lived at Orleans in Karok territory.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255541, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four pairs of brown "T"s. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow lines. Two sawtooth lines. Rim has four and one half trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with four diagonal lines running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the Orleans area where Francis Riddell family lived.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255541, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four pairs of brown "T"s. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow lines. Two sawtooth lines. Rim has four and one half trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with four diagonal lines running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the Orleans area where Francis Riddell family lived.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255541, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four pairs of brown "T"s. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow lines. Two sawtooth lines. Rim has four and one half trapezoids. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with four diagonal lines running through them. 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the Orleans area where Francis Riddell family lived.

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