Credit line: Basketry Hat (Hupa), 1900-1920, Gift of Eunice “Frona” Wait Colburn, 1939, U.S. Department of the Interior Museum, INTR 00404
Descriptive text: A 3D model depicts a basketry cap which is Hupa in cultural origin. Woven by hand in California sometime 1900 to 1920, it measures 3 inches high and 7.5 inches in diameter, making it slightly larger than a typical woman’s cap. It has a globular shape and no brim. The warps are hazel shoots. The underlying weft structure is of conifer root with an overlay of beargrass (white), maidenhair fern (dark brown-black), and porcupine quills dyed yellow using wolf moss lichen. The circular brownish-yellow element at the crown has a sawtooth edge in stitches of dark maidenhair fern. There are dark concentric bands at top and bottom and eight alternating sections of design elements consisting of dark triangle and yellow diamond shapes.
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