Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-223930
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1733
Description:
Basketry. Twined. Brown and black geometric designs. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Some of the interior weft ends have not been scraped out; it might not have been used. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia, beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a set of three stacked parallelograms in red-dyed woodwardia with stepped designs in maidenhair fern in-between them. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Gertrue B. Edwards
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Gertrue B. Edwards
Collection date:
1941
Materials:
Willow (wood)
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 3 inches and diameter 7 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223930, described as Basketry. Twined. Brown and black geometric designs. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Some of the interior weft ends have not been scraped out; it might not have been used. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia, beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a set of three stacked parallelograms in red-dyed woodwardia with stepped designs in maidenhair fern in-between them. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223930, described as Basketry. Twined. Brown and black geometric designs. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Some of the interior weft ends have not been scraped out; it might not have been used. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia, beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a set of three stacked parallelograms in red-dyed woodwardia with stepped designs in maidenhair fern in-between them. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223930, described as Basketry. Twined. Brown and black geometric designs. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Some of the interior weft ends have not been scraped out; it might not have been used. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia, beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a set of three stacked parallelograms in red-dyed woodwardia with stepped designs in maidenhair fern in-between them. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-223930, described as Basketry. Twined. Brown and black geometric designs. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Some of the interior weft ends have not been scraped out; it might not have been used. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia, beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a set of three stacked parallelograms in red-dyed woodwardia with stepped designs in maidenhair fern in-between them. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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