Yurok
Woman’s Hat
Yurok, Mid-20th century
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Yurok
Woman’s Hat
Yurok, Mid-20th century
Physical Qualities
Hazel twigs, spruce root, 4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.2 × 18.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number
1953.220.B.59
Among the Yurok and other groups of northern California, women wore basketry hats as a part of their daily dress. The hat represented some of their finest weaving. If you look under the rim, you will see that there is no design on the hat's interior. This effect is created with half-twist overlay twining: two wefts are twined as a pair (photo) and given a half twist as they pass around each warp. The outer weft always appears on the surface of the basket, creating the design.
Photo:
C. Fallon, The Art of the Indian Basket in North America, 1975
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.
Katzenberg, D. S., & Baltimore Museum of Art. "And eagles sweep across the sky": Indian textiles of the North American West : [exhibition]. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1977:99
Inscribed: tape label inside: '239A'
