10 (original number) and TB-6 (tb (temporary basket) number, Based on the published design this hat is temporary basket catalog number TB-6.)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Cap basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus) and Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Materials:
Alder root, Common beargrass, Conifer root, Hazel shoots, and Maidenhair fern
Taxon:
Adiantum pedatum, Alnus, Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and 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:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17.5 centimeters and height 8 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE II, 4, pg 128, Fig 120. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 80. Was marked as missing in 1992, presumably because number had fallen off. Identified during basket move as TB-6, it was matched to a historic photograph in AAE II, 4 to reestablish museum number.