Basketry cap

Museum number:
1-27164
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
82 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.639
Description:
Basketry cap. Twine. Triangle design in brown and maidenhair. Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.75 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass. At the start there are two weft rows of woodwardia alternating with beargrass. The next design is a horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. The main design elements are three sets comprised of two triangles, which are upside down and two right triangles. There is also a filler element similar in a shape to a less than symbol. That is followed by another horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. At the rim are three sets of two geometric designs as well as one filler element of four slashes. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.
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 3 inches and diameter 7.25 inches
Comment:
Published: AAE v. 32 #1, pl. 33 b.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27164, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Triangle design in brown and maidenhair. Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.75 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass. At the start there are two weft rows of woodwardia alternating with beargrass. The next design is a horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. The main design elements are three sets comprised of two triangles, which are upside down and two right triangles. There is also a filler element similar in a shape to a less than symbol. That is followed by another horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. At the rim are three sets of two geometric designs as well as one filler element of four slashes. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27164, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Triangle design in brown and maidenhair. Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.75 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass. At the start there are two weft rows of woodwardia alternating with beargrass. The next design is a horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. The main design elements are three sets comprised of two triangles, which are upside down and two right triangles. There is also a filler element similar in a shape to a less than symbol. That is followed by another horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. At the rim are three sets of two geometric designs as well as one filler element of four slashes. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27164, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Triangle design in brown and maidenhair. Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.75 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass. At the start there are two weft rows of woodwardia alternating with beargrass. The next design is a horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. The main design elements are three sets comprised of two triangles, which are upside down and two right triangles. There is also a filler element similar in a shape to a less than symbol. That is followed by another horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. At the rim are three sets of two geometric designs as well as one filler element of four slashes. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27164, described as Basketry cap. Twine. Triangle design in brown and maidenhair. Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined cap. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.75 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design background overlay is beargrass. At the start there are two weft rows of woodwardia alternating with beargrass. The next design is a horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. The main design elements are three sets comprised of two triangles, which are upside down and two right triangles. There is also a filler element similar in a shape to a less than symbol. That is followed by another horizontal row of woodwardia triangles. At the rim are three sets of two geometric designs as well as one filler element of four slashes. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is on the exterior, with some pattern coming through to the other side. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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