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Hearst Museum object titled Animal hide hat with shell, accession number 5-5868, described as skull cap; monkey and deer skins s/trim of cloth-wrapped sticks and cowrie shell decorations; width flattened 31 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Animal hide hat w/mirrors, accession number 5-5869, described as “crown” of deer skin with decorations of yellow and fuschia braided wool; 3 attached mirrors depicting film stars on their outer paper faces; width flattened 23.5 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27311, described as Basketry. Close twined.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255540, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center with four butterfly shapes around it. Main section has four bands of diagonally stacked trapezoids bisected into triangles by yellow and black lines. Two bands of sawtooth lines. Rim has four trapezoids.  Tag "Klamath River Tribes".  There looks to be some string used for stabilizing the breaks. Per Ralph Shanks:  Twined woman's basket hat.  Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root.  The weft overlay background is beargrass with maidenhair fern designs.  Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining.  Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining.  The rim is trimmed.  The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms with diagonal lines running through them.   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 titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164457, described as Twined basketry cap.  Tag "Northwest Calif. Att.". 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 background is red-dyed woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs.  Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining.  Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of lattice twining.  The rim is trimmed.  The main design is six elements of beargrass stepped triangles.  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 some overlay on the backface, with the design on the exterior.  The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the extensive use of red-dyed woodwardia.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-20850, described as Basketry cap with design in brown and yellow (porcupine quills).
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27314, described as Basketry. Close twined.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-255544, described as Basketry. Twined, domical. Top has brown center surrounded by black band with four hanging rectangles. Concentric bands of yellow, black and brown throughout. Main section has terraced black trapezoids and triangles zigzagging all the way around. Rim has four black trapezoids.  Tag:  "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks:  Twined woman's basket hat.  Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root.  The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 1/2 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining.  Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining.  The rim is trimmed. The main design is a stepped horizontal band with triangles inside, above, and below the band. 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.  There are three hairs woven into the basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-20964, described as Bowl basket (according to Ruth Merrill); twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Black Pattern is Willow. Painted. Decoration 2 bands in black enclosing vertical zigzag lines.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-27874, described as Basketry, widow's overlay twined, black design.