Basketry Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: TIGHTLY WOVEN, SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE CONICAL HAT, PROBABLY MADE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE LOWER HALF OF THE HAT IS DECORATED WITH A WOVEN DESIGN BY WEFT ON ONE AND TWO WARPS. THERE IS A CAP WOVEN ON THE INTERIOR OF THE HAT FOR A CLOSER FIT. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION.
label: Notes
content: Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.
label: Notes
content: For small illustration see Hat 109, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. A detail showing four-strand embedded braid is also illustrated Fig. 60, p. 91. Glinsmann identifies as Haida style of manufacture.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), 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: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2581-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Diameter - Top
content: 11 cm
label: Diameter - Bottom
content: 39 cm