Twined basketry. Main design band is zigzag in brown and black. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot with a beargrass overlay. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .75 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of lattice twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass on the lower .75 of the cap; the upper .25 background is woodwardia. The design at the start is a horizontal band of beargrass outlined by maidenhair fern. Below the lattice twining is a row of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The main design is a horizontal zigzag band on a beargrass background. The design at the rim is five elements of two sets of right triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River 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