Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-2067
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002067
Alternate number:
651 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:
Design in red maidenhair fern. Woman's dress cap. Flat top plain twined. Start and 2 single rows defining design zones are 3 strand twined. Single faced overlay, almost completely covering cap. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
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:
1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8 centimeters and 18.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1983-1984 #15: Lawrence E. Dawson/Lawrence E. Dawson (September 22, 1983–September 26, 1983)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-2067, described as Design in red maidenhair fern. Woman's dress cap. Flat top plain twined. Start and 2 single rows defining design zones are 3 strand twined. Single faced overlay, almost completely covering cap. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-2067, described as Design in red maidenhair fern. Woman's dress cap. Flat top plain twined. Start and 2 single rows defining design zones are 3 strand twined. Single faced overlay, almost completely covering cap. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-2067, described as Design in red maidenhair fern. Woman's dress cap. Flat top plain twined. Start and 2 single rows defining design zones are 3 strand twined. Single faced overlay, almost completely covering cap. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-2067, described as Design in red maidenhair fern. Woman's dress cap. Flat top plain twined. Start and 2 single rows defining design zones are 3 strand twined. Single faced overlay, almost completely covering cap. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.).

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