Basketry Crest Hat, Painted
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1883
label: Collection Date
content: July 1883
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Red, black, and several shades of blue design with two leather chin straps. The crown is supported by a wooden inner support. 4/18/1967: loaned to Vancouver Art Gall. 12/13/67: returned by Vancouver. 4/17/67: Loan Data: ok but very fragile. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus. Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 103, p. 92. Ilus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 13, pg. 253." Crossroads catalogue identifies as a spruce-root hat, and says that the formline design is of an orca, or killer whale, a leading crest of the Raven moiety of the Haida. Per Dawn Glinsmann, 7-15-2005, this hat has the Haida jog along with a Haida braid. For small illustration see Hat 106, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=627, retrieved 5-6-2012: Crest hat, Haida. This woven spruce-root hat is painted with abstract form-lines representing the Killer Whale, a crest owned by all of the Raven moiety clans. In traditional stories, killer whales are the rulers of the ocean; they are fearsome creatures that break canoes and drown the people inside, who then become whales themselves. Leading men and women wore hats with painted clan designs at ceremonial occasions such as the great house-building feasts. This hat from Masset, British Columbia has leather chin straps and a wooden frame inside to support the crown.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) / Graham Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013804
label: USNM Number
content: E88961B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 60 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 63 cm