Object name: Bottle / Object class: Twined weaving / Donor: Estate of W. H. Middleton - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 1-148927, described as Basketry covered bottle imitation woven over a wood core; twined with overlay; parallelogram design. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basketry covered wooden bottle imitation with handle. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft design overlay is maidenhair fern with a beargrass background. Starting after the starting knot, there is .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .25 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining all the way up to the base of the neck where there is .5 inch of three strand twining. The handle has an unknown twining technique. The main design is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms. The rim is trimmed. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist, except for one row of three strand twining at the neck which as a down to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 2-34009, described as Made of twined basketry, pitched with 2 horsehair loops, rawhide carrying thong.