Basket hat
date: label: Date created
content: 1880-1920
name: label: Culture/People
content: Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw (Nemquic); used by the Mamalilikulla Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl); formerly identified as Haida
label: Artist/Maker
content: Mother of Johnson Cook, Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw (Nemquic)
label: Previous owner
content: May Company (May Department Stores Company), 1877-2005
label: Exchanging Agent
content: Morton D. May (Buster May), Non-Indian, 1914-1983
label: Previous owner
content: Go-ma-newkw, Mamalilikulla Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: Previous owner
content: Lucy Brown (Lucy Hanuse), Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Made by a Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw woman (the mother of Johnson Cook) for a Mamalilikulla Kwakwaka'wakw woman named Go-ma-newkw as part of her dowry; inherited by Lucy Hanuse (Kwakwaka'wakw, later Mrs. Lucy Brown), who sold it to an unknown dealer; included in a sale of Northwest Coast art at the May Company department store in Los Angeles, California; acquired by MAI in 1967 through an exchange with the May Company, operated by Native art collector Morton D. May (1914-1983).
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Alert Bay; Mount Waddington Regional District; British Columbia; Canada (inferred)
label: Archipelago
content: Vancouver Island Group
label: Island Name
content: Cormorant Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Namgis Kwakwaka'wakw (Nemquic)
label: See related items
content: Mamalilikulla Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
label: See related items
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 23/9486
label: Barcode
content: 239486.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
label: Indigenous Term
content: gikaml
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Basket hat
label: Media/Materials
content: Spruce root, cedar bark, pigment/pigments
label: Techniques
content: Twined, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 51 x 101 cm