Basketry hat; twined spruce root; frog design painted in black and brown; 4-pointed star at crown. Designs represents one of owner's family crests.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Haida
Maker or artist:
Charles Edenshaw and Isabelle Edenshaw
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
1934
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Hats, and Twined weaving
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1932
Context of use:
According to Charles Brown (Tlingit, June 1964) most such painted ceremonial hats are worn by women at dances. According to V.M. Fredrickson: hat worn by wealthy individuals on festive and ceremonial occasions.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 23 centimeters and diameter 38.5 centimeters
Comment:
..."His (Charlie Edenshaw) wife Isabelle made the hats and he painted them." fide Reg Davidson/Jim Hart, October, 1990. "4-pointed star on crown an Edenshaw "trademark" (fide Bill Holm).
Loans:
S1961-1962 #72: San Jose State University (May 2, 1962–May 15, 1962), S1963-1964 #91: Haida-Tlingit Organization, Oakland (May 30, 1964–June 1, 1964), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967), S1966-1967 #77: Physical Education Department (UC Berkeley) (March 9, 1967–March 9, 1967), S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984), S1986-1987 #28: SFO Museum (June 4, 1987–August 26, 1987), S1988-1989 #8: Art Gallery (Sonoma State Univ.) (September 7, 1988–October 25, 1988), and S2008-2009 #9b: SFO Museum (February 12, 2009–January 11, 2010)