Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-27165
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010027165
Alternate number:
83 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.639
Description:
Basketry cap. Twine. Bands and triangular designs in white. Tag "83" and "30 d". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att. A third tag is torn off. 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, which is also the design background. The weft overlay is beargrass. 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 three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is several sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal lines. 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, possibly from the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area based on the overlay on the interior and the design layout.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
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:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 4.5 inches and diameter 7 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27165, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Bands and triangular designs in white. Tag "83" and "30 d". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att. A third tag is torn off. 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, which is also the design background. The weft overlay is beargrass. 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 three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is several sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal lines. 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, possibly from the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area based on the overlay on the interior and the design layout.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27165, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Bands and triangular designs in white. Tag "83" and "30 d". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att. A third tag is torn off. 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, which is also the design background. The weft overlay is beargrass. 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 three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is several sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal lines. 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, possibly from the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area based on the overlay on the interior and the design layout.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27165, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Bands and triangular designs in white. Tag "83" and "30 d". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att. A third tag is torn off. 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, which is also the design background. The weft overlay is beargrass. 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 three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is several sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal lines. 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, possibly from the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area based on the overlay on the interior and the design layout.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27165, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Bands and triangular designs in white. Tag "83" and "30 d". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att. A third tag is torn off. 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, which is also the design background. The weft overlay is beargrass. 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 three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is several sets of three stacked triangles above and below two horizontal lines. 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, possibly from the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area based on the overlay on the interior and the design layout.

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