Cap

Museum number:
1-148929
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010148929
Accession number:
Acc.1631
Description:
Basketry hat with overlay; geometric design including parallelograms at rim. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". 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 designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms outlined in 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Estate of W. H. Middleton
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
William H. Middleton
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1962
Context of use:
Woman's hat.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-148929, described as Basketry hat with overlay; geometric design including parallelograms at rim. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". 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 designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms outlined in 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cap, accession number 1-148929, described as Basketry hat with overlay; geometric design including parallelograms at rim. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". 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 designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms outlined in 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 primarily 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 1-148929, described as Basketry hat with overlay; geometric design including parallelograms at rim. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". 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 designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms outlined in 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-148929, described as Basketry hat with overlay; geometric design including parallelograms at rim. Twined. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". 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 designs in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms outlined in 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 primarily single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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