Hat

NA9491

From: Alaska | Killisnoo

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9491
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Killisnoo
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Spruce Root
Technique Basketry | Twined
Description

Twined spruce root hat. Undecorated, save for a zigzag or "Tree shadow" design woven into the lower half (Frances Paul, 1944 p. 54). A hat band encircles the center of the interior.

Technical notes: twined, close twined, two-strand, diagonal/twill twining, three-strand; 14 warps, 18 wefts per square inch at rim. Skip stitch.

Height 18.3 cm
Width 39.5 cm
Depth 39.9 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923
Other Number 25 - Field No SF

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