Basketry cap. Twined. Triangular design in maidenhair fern. Label "Squaw Cap Klamath lev [?] Calif.". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The background overlay is beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is a 1/2 an inch of conifer root with no overlay. At the start there are four vertical rectangles. The main design is formed by pairs of stacked parallelograms with beargrass triangles on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is only on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
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:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 3.25 inches and diameter 7.5 inches
Comment:
Photo: 5-8708. Published: AAE 32 #1, pl. 23 b.
Loans:
S1955-1956 #4: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (September 16, 1955–July 26, 1957) and S1964-1965 #41: Art Department (SF State University)/Lawrence E. Dawson (December 15, 1964–December 15, 1964)