Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-214287
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010214287
Accession number:
Acc.1462
Description:
Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.
Donor:
Lucile K. Baumgaertner
Collection place:
Mad River near Korbel and Blue Lake, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mad River; Lower Mad River
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
William Keller
Collection date:
ca. 1910
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:
1961
Context of use:
Woman's cap.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
17.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-214287, described as Twined basketry cap. Design: white with black overlay. Mostly plain-twining.

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