Truncated cone shape, the flat top showing the 4 wide (5/8") strips of bark used as a foundation. The weaving is double, the inside much coarser than the outside.

Hat

Haida people, Northwest Coast, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

  • Titles Hat (Descriptive)
  • Medium cedar bark
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.27
  • Object Name hat
  • Classification Costume

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Plain with cylindrical handle
Four spruce root lugs, one broken. Canvas patch. Circular spruce root patch made like the bottom of a basket. Alternate plaiting and twining weave. No colors.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Déaxitchish / Pretty Eagle seated, partial figure, three-quarter view, head facing front. Elements of regalia outlined in red; text annotations in red radiate from figure.
The totemic design is well done but rather recent. The paint is vermilion and ball bluing blue. Totemic designs occupy two sides and a design (see card) is on each of the other sides. The box is of red cedar, pegged side and bottom. New looking almost.