Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-144945
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010144945
Accession number:
Acc.1527
Description:
Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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:
Howard Moïse
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Mrs. Robert D. Dunlap
Collection date:
unknown
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:
1962
Context of use:
Worn by woman.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-144945, described as Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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 1-144945, described as Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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 1-144945, described as Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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 1-144945, described as Twined basketry cap. 4-parted design in red and black. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "NW. Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern and red-dyed woodwardia designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four elements comprised of two stacked parallelograms with a beargrass slashes through each set. 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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