Basketry cap

Modoc
California culture

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collected before 1925

Tule, beargrass, cotton twine

Overall: 4 7/16 × 6 13/16 in. (11.2 × 17.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne

42.12.7941

Geography

Place Made: Klamath County, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Headwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: California Culture

Not on view

Provenance

From the Hallomills, California; to George H. Browne (1857-1931) and Emily Robbins Webster Browne (1861-1942), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1925; given (by Miss Ellen A. Webster, Mrs. Browne's sister) to present collection, 1942.

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