Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-235258
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Basketry cap. Probably for wine bottle. Twined. 2 rows of dark brown alternating with straw color. Handle on top. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bottle cap with handle. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in maidenhair fern. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot covered with beargrass. The basket is plain twined. The rim is trimmed. The design is two rows of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
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:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Novelty.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 4 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-235258, described as Basketry cap. Probably for wine bottle. Twined. 2 rows of dark brown alternating with straw color. Handle on top. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bottle cap with handle. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in maidenhair fern. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot covered with beargrass. The basket is plain twined. The rim is trimmed. The design is two rows of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-235258, described as Basketry cap. Probably for wine bottle. Twined. 2 rows of dark brown alternating with straw color. Handle on top. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bottle cap with handle. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in maidenhair fern. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot covered with beargrass. The basket is plain twined. The rim is trimmed. The design is two rows of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-235258, described as Basketry cap. Probably for wine bottle. Twined. 2 rows of dark brown alternating with straw color. Handle on top. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bottle cap with handle. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in maidenhair fern. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot covered with beargrass. The basket is plain twined. The rim is trimmed. The design is two rows of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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