Basketry cap. Plain with half twist overlay. Rhomboid design in golden yellow and black on light brown field. Reinforced band around edge and crown. Edge broken in several areas and repaired with glue. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is maidenhair fern, red-dyed woodwardia, and beargrass. The design background is conifer root with no overlay. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .75 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms. 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 has an unusually flat top for the Northwestern California area. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 17.5 centimeters