Basketry cap. Plain twined with half-twist overlay. Triangular design in wheat color on red-brown field, bands of dark brown and wheat color. Reinforced band around edge and crown. Edge broken in several areas and glued. Materials: Willow, white grass, stained and dyed woodwardia fern.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wiyot
Collector:
unknown
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9.5 centimeters and diameter 18.5 centimeters