Cap

Museum number:
1-224010
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1773
Description:
Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. 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 mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Estate of Howard Alden Judy
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Howard Alden Judy
Collection date:
1910-1962
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:
diameter 7 inches and height 3.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-224010, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. 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 mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-224010, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. 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 mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-224010, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. 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 mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-224010, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. 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 mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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