Basketry Hat | Basketry Potlatch Rings Item Number: 989 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Automatically Generated From Material
The paint is black, red, and blue.
Exhibit Label
Spruce Root Raven Hat, Tlingit, Killisnoo Village, xootsnoow
Raven, the northern Northwest Coast Trickster/Creator, is often painted on hats to display the clan crest of the owners. 1800s; Collected by George T. Emmons; No. 989
Item History
- Received from George T. Emmons
What
- Name
- Basketry Hat | Basketry Potlatch Rings
- Identification Number
- 989
- Type of Item
- basketry hat and basketry potlatch ring
- Material
- spruce root and paint
- Manufacturing Technique
- plain twined, triple twined, skip stitched and painted
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit: Hutsnuwu
- Received from
- George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from George T. Emmons
- Motif
- Eagle | Formline
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection