Nuu-chah-nulth
Basketry Whaler’s Hat
Nootka, 1900-1932
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Nuu-chah-nulth
Basketry Whaler’s Hat
Nootka, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Cedar bark and grasses, 11 × 11 in. (28 × 28 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1980.479
Cone-shaped hat rising to onion dome; brim with design of black and white whales; black boats and whalers with red harpoon; multi-colored horizontal bands on dome; red-brown ground. Twined.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1980; Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore.
Katzenberg, Dena. And eagles sweep across the sky. Indian textiles of the North American West. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977, cat. no. 14, p. 85, ill.
