Basketry cap

Yurok
California culture

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early 20th century

Conifer root, beargrass, hazel, giant fern, maidenhair fern, and alder bark

Overall: 3 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (9.5 × 17.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

51.27.12817

Geography

Place Made: Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Klamath River, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Headwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: California Culture

Not on view

Exhibition History

Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.

Provenance

Robert T. Emery (1918-2005), Lebanon, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1951.

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