Woman's Hat

Woman's Hat

Klamath River: twined hat basket of Hupa or Yurok tribe. Materials are willow shoot warp wrapped in a conifer weft with multi colored overlay design. The white overlay is bear grass while the black is maidenhair fern stems. The design is in three registers with parallelograms and a star on top. Red is alder dyed woodwaria fern stems. *see remarks
  • Object: Woman's Hat
  • Artist: -
  • Circa: -
  • Dimensions: 7" diameter 3 1/2" high
  • Culture Area: California
  • Cultural Group: Hupa or Yurok
  • Cultural Context: -
  • Donor: -
  • Catalog #: 78.702