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Basketry sailor's cap
Object Number 99-12-10/53083
Display Title Basketry sailor's cap
Descriptions
Object Description Native adaptation of a Western-style sailor's hat, woven in the traditional fashion with spruce roots embroidered with grass. Twined, with false embroidery at sides and base in the form of interlocking diamond and triangle motifs in buff on brown ground.
Inventory Description Basketry hat, mushroom-shaped, woven geometric design.
Classification
  • Hat
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1790-1840
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
North America / United States
Materials Fiber, Spruce root, Grass
Dimensions Overall: 11.5 × 29.8 × 31 cm (4 1/2 × 11 3/4 × 12 3/16 in.) Storage: 35.5601 × 36.1951 × 20.955 cm (14 × 14 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-10/53083
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Owner Peale Museum (Unknown - Unknown)
Owner David Kimball (Unknown - 1873)
Collector William Clark (Unknown - Unknown)
Collector Meriwether Lewis (Unknown - Unknown)
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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