Basket cap

Museum number:
1-20821
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
50 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Basket cap; twined. No warp. Weft is alder root (Alnus).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River area, Northwestern California, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Alder root
Taxon:
Alnus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 7.75 inches and width 3.25 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 11
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket cap, accession number 1-20821, described as Basket cap; twined. No warp. Weft is alder root (Alnus).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket cap, accession number 1-20821, described as Basket cap; twined. No warp. Weft is alder root (Alnus).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket cap, accession number 1-20821, described as Basket cap; twined. No warp. Weft is alder root (Alnus).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket cap, accession number 1-20821, described as Basket cap; twined. No warp. Weft is alder root (Alnus).

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