Basketry cap

Museum number:

1-1672

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010001672

Alternate number:

256 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Object count:

1

Description:

Woman's basketry dress cap. Plain twined (3 strand at start and 1 row in 2 places divides cap into design zones). Single faced overlay - white grass, maidenhair fern, and alder dyed Woodwardia fern.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Yurok

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

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:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

height 9 centimeters and diameter 17 centimeters

Comment:

Published: AAE II, 4, pp 119, 122, Fig 56 & 61.

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