Cap

Museum number:
1-28589
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.673
Description:
Basketry. Circular design combining triangles and parallelograms in black and brown on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R Tribes". Second tag has a circle with a diagonal slash through it followed by an equal sign and either a "4" or an "A". Below that is a horizontal line and below the line is "3.50". 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 has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of six off-set elements comprised of three stepped parallelograms with six triangles outlining them. 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:
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:
diameter 17.5 centimeters and height 8.7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-28589, described as Basketry. Circular design combining triangles and parallelograms in black and brown on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R Tribes". Second tag has a circle with a diagonal slash through it followed by an equal sign and either a "4" or an "A". Below that is a horizontal line and below the line is "3.50". 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 has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of six off-set elements comprised of three stepped parallelograms with six triangles outlining them. 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 Cap, accession number 1-28589, described as Basketry. Circular design combining triangles and parallelograms in black and brown on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R Tribes". Second tag has a circle with a diagonal slash through it followed by an equal sign and either a "4" or an "A". Below that is a horizontal line and below the line is "3.50". 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 has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of six off-set elements comprised of three stepped parallelograms with six triangles outlining them. 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 Cap, accession number 1-28589, described as Basketry. Circular design combining triangles and parallelograms in black and brown on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R Tribes". Second tag has a circle with a diagonal slash through it followed by an equal sign and either a "4" or an "A". Below that is a horizontal line and below the line is "3.50". 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 has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of six off-set elements comprised of three stepped parallelograms with six triangles outlining them. 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 Cap, accession number 1-28589, described as Basketry. Circular design combining triangles and parallelograms in black and brown on wheat colored ground. Tule, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Tag "Klamath R Tribes". Second tag has a circle with a diagonal slash through it followed by an equal sign and either a "4" or an "A". Below that is a horizontal line and below the line is "3.50". 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 has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is a horizontal band of six off-set elements comprised of three stepped parallelograms with six triangles outlining them. 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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