Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-233737
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010233737
Accession number:
Acc.2728
Description:
Twined basketry. Warp is pine root, wefts of pine root with overlays of Xerophyllum tenax and maidenhair fern. Main design comprises black triangles connected together by inverted "v" of Xerophyllum tenax.
Donor:
Bill Reed Adams, Ira Carlton Adams, Jeffrey Carlton Adams, and Rosemary Jeffreys Adams
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Ira Carlton Adams
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
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:
1971
Context of use:
Fancy cap worn by women of Klamath River tribes.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 18.4 centimeters and height 8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-233737, described as Twined basketry. Warp is pine root, wefts of pine root with overlays of Xerophyllum tenax and maidenhair fern. Main design comprises black triangles connected together by inverted "v" of Xerophyllum tenax.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-233737, described as Twined basketry. Warp is pine root, wefts of pine root with overlays of Xerophyllum tenax and maidenhair fern. Main design comprises black triangles connected together by inverted "v" of Xerophyllum tenax.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-233737, described as Twined basketry. Warp is pine root, wefts of pine root with overlays of Xerophyllum tenax and maidenhair fern. Main design comprises black triangles connected together by inverted "v" of Xerophyllum tenax.

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