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Basketry hat
Object Number 88-51-10/50504
Display Title Basketry hat
Descriptions
Object Description Basketry hat, possibly depicting a bird; twined spruce root hat with typical flat crown. Overpainting in black and red with wolf motifs. Decorative diamond twining on brim. Mythical sea grizzly represented on this spruce root hat is painted with vermilion, a red pigment that was an important trade item throughout North America.
Inventory Description Woven fiber hat, conical, flat top, painted zoomorphic deco., cloth ties
Classification
  • Hat
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1876?
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Spruce root, Pigment, Root, Red cedar, Vermillion
Dimensions Overall: 18.5 × 39 cm (7 5/16 × 15 3/8 in.) Storage: 48.8951 × 45.7201 × 22.225 cm (19 1/4 × 18 × 8 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50504 Alaska SH'##O
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (01/01/1876)
Exchange participant Smithsonian Institution (01/01/1888)

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