Basketry Hat Item Number: 2004-2/47 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The spruce root is natural and brown. The paint is red, green, and black.
Exhibit Label
In the Spirit of the Ancestors-Twined spruce root hats were traditionally worn on the northern Northwest Coast and many were made for sale to outsiders in the late 19th century. Today they continue to be important ceremonial wear, displaying the crests of the wearer. The small ring of dyed brown spruce root around the center of the top is the artist's signature.
Item History
- Made by Primrose Adams and Alfred Adams
- Received from Arthur B. Steinman
What
- Name
- Basketry Hat
- Identification Number
- 2004-2/47
- Type of Item
- basketry hat
- Material
- spruce root and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- plain twined, triple twined, skip stitched and painted
- Overall
- height 6.0 in, diameter 15.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Creator
- Primrose Adams and Alfred Adams
- Received from
- Arthur B. Steinman
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Gift of Arthur B. Steinman
- Motif
- Frog | Formline
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection