- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Salish rain hat
- Contributor to Resource:
- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Date of Original:
- 1947/1964
- Subject:
- King County (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Seattle (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--King County--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--Seattle--Pictorial works - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
- Medium:
- artifacts (object genre)
photographs - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Hats like this one were woven by Coast Salish people for hundreds of years, using the bark of the cedar tree. After 1875, such hats were often woven for sale to collectors rather than for daily use.
- Local Identifier:
- 715
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/kccollects/id/603
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/kccollects:603/manifest.json
- Extent:
- Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import.
- Original Collection:
- King County Museum Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Washington. Libraries
- Rights:
-
Salish rain hat
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