Object class: Bowl baskets / Donor: Hamlin-Jose Pony Express Foundation / Culture or time period: California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Bowl baskets Donor Hamlin-Jose Pony Express Foundation Culture or time period California tribes

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-148877, described as Twined, offset double parallelogram designs in dyed Woodwardia fern fiber; beargrass background; round shape. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining. After that .5 inch of plain twining, followed by 2 weft rows of three strand twining followed by 2 weft rows diagonal twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The design includes a band of beargrass on the bottom, followed by conifer root, followed by beargrass and then two horizontal rows of red dyed woodwardia. The main design is two sets of two offset parallelograms with two smaller striped parallelograms on their interior. Two more horizontal bands of red dyed woodwardia are near the rim. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk based on the extensive use of red dyed woodwardia.