Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-164128
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010164128
Accession number:
Acc.1780
Description:
Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.
Donor:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
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
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
Worn by woman.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "Refer to photo of Kathy Branstetter's Wiyot basket w/black-dyed woodwardia fern fiber (25-
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164128, described as Twined basketry cap. Covered with overlay designs, including parallelograms. Major motif a stepped pyramid (black) containing a white angle.

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