TRADITIONAL TYPES OF BASKET CAPS
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(fig. 6). This cap with a raised crown has the obsidian blade design that was the most admired and frequent pattern in caps in later periods. Work caps could be just woven sticks but were most frequently hazel sticks and pine or spruce roots. These roots if woven correctly would be water tight, so the cap would also be useful to hold water for drinking. Usually overlay was minimal in most work caps whether for a man or a woman. The minimal overlay pattern was usually bear grass or small "salt and pepper" patterns of bear grass and fern in bands encircling the cap. Work caps also protect the head when the poles of dip nets, used in fishing, rest on the head, or when straps of carrying baskets are placed just above the rim of the cap. |