Basketry. Circular linear and geometric design in wheat color and black on brown ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag: "Klamath R 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 design is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. The design background is conifer root. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band with a stepped design surrounded by narrow horizontal bands. 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 primarily single-sided, with the main design on the exterior and small horizontal bands on the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Whilkut based on the designs on the interior of the basket. There is a hair woven into the basket, near the lattice twining near the rim.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes and Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
1875-1930
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:
1932
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and diameter 17.8 centimeters