TRADITIONAL COMBINATIONS OF COLOR IN CAPS

The use of color has changed significantly since 1929. O'Neale's informants almost universally stated that it was not traditional to combine red (woodwardia dyed with alder bark) and yellow (porcupine quills dyed with staghorn lichen, Oregon grape root, or Durango root). Additionally a weaver should never use larger quantities of yellow quills than contrasting black maidenhair fern. Several talented weavers of succeeding generations abandoned the prohibition of combining red and yellow (fig. 17). Most basketmakers today are no longer weaving caps with porcupine quills except Edie Grant Norton who has used quills in her first cap.
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