TRADITIONAL TYPES OF BASKET CAPS

There are two basic categories of basket caps in local Indian languages. Their Indian names are a combination of the word for cap with another word often identifying their most prominent material. For example, in Yurok, according to Georgina Trull the basic names are athl-wah-eka (Indian cap) and wapa-wah-eka (spruce cap). The first type is the work cap, made mostly with roots and little overlay (fig. 3).
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