Cap; twined. Warp is Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is Tule and cotton string. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black dye is Tule root. Brown dye is split Tule. Red color is split Tule, dyed in "root of a small plant". Nine bands of black.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Reed, and Tule (grass material)
Taxon:
Phragmites australis and Schoenoplectus acutus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.7 centimeters and diameter 18 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 31