Flaring basketry hat of spruce roots with killer whale (?) design painted in red, black, green. Painted design is family crest.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; British Columbia; Queen Charlotte Islands
Culture or time period:
Haida
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hats
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 16.25 inches and length 14.5 inches
Loans:
S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), and S2008-2009 #9b: SFO Museum (February 12, 2009–January 11, 2010)