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.
Donor:
Francis A. Riddell
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Francis A. Riddell
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:
1983
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 centimeters and height 10.5 centimeters
Comment:
Riddell's ancestor lived at Orleans in Karok territory.