TRADITIONAL TYPES OF BASKET CAPS
Among the Tolowa, women wore prow shaped caps with woodpecker feathers (figs. 9). These unique caps were considered more prestigious than woven basket caps and were worn for
the Tolowa Feather Dance. Medicine women may also have worn special caps, but this was probably a more individualized choice. Their caps could vary greatly. Some wore caps of a single
color, red or black. Others wore caps with quills or more common work caps. Some medicine women also wore western hats decorated with attachments. Axel Lindgren said his grandmother,
the last medicine woman at the Yurok coastal village of Tsurai, wore a straw hat. Other medicine women may have had more elaborate caps made from animal hides that they decorated with
bird feathers.
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