Cap

Museum number:
1-236790
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Accession number:
Acc.3226
Description:
Beaded. White and gold glass beads. Encircling band with geometric design in pink, green and black on white ground. Poor condition. Cylindrical glass beads on cotton string.
Donor:
Doreen B. Townsend
Collection place:
Kit Carson Trail, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Kit Carson Trail
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Caps (headgear)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Context of use:
Dance cap?
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 33.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-236790, described as Beaded. White and gold glass beads. Encircling band with geometric design in pink, green and black on white ground. Poor condition. Cylindrical glass beads on cotton string.

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