Unfinished basketry cap. Plain twined, except for start and single row defining design zone. Single faced overlay. White grass (Xerophyllum tenax) and maidenhair fern.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
August 1961
Taxon:
Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Caps (headgear), and Twined weaving