The woven hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi deserves specific attention, because the technology of its production is itself informative about cultural connections and the movement of material culture across the region.

Woven hats of the type associated with the coastal Tlingit and related peoples are made from plant fibers — typically spruce root, which is harvested, split, and prepared through a process of careful processing that produces the fine, flexible strands used in weaving.

The weaving technique used for these hats is distinctive — a specific style of twined weaving that is recognizable to specialists in Northwest Coast material culture and that differs from the weaving traditions of the interior subarctic peoples.

Learning to weave this kind of hat is not a casual skill.