Basketry cap. Circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band with a stepped design and triangles above and below the band. 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 is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes and Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
1875-1930
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:
1932
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18.3 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters