Woman's basket hat, black and white. Dirty from use. Plain twined except start and design area dividers. Almost completely overlain. Both 1 and 2 face overlay. White grass and maidenhair fern. Geometric design.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Martin's Ferry, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Martin's Ferry
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
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:
1906
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 17.5 centimeters