Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-164152
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010164152
Accession number:
Acc.1780
Description:
Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. 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:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Mrs. Robert Griesche
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
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
Context of use:
Worn by woman.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. 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 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. 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 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. 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 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. 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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