Collection place: Northern California / Donor: Henry B. Hickey Jr. - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67806, described as Coiled, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67853, described as Diagonal twining. Bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67804, described as Coiled, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-67894, described as Burden basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Three strand twining at base; the rest of basket is plain twined. Hazel warp sticks and conifer root weft. Overlay design is only in beargrass. Design band below rim with two interlocked parallelograms. Then V shaped chains of parallelograms. Undulating sides are common to Southern Humboldt Athabascans. Leather reinforcing at rim is lashed on in typical Lassik style although this type of lashing could be used by neighbors as well.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-67906, described as Twined

Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-67912, described as Twined basketry cap. Tag "Twined basketry hat N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .5 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed, with string securing the end of the weft row. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms with a two triangle/ butterfly design on their interiors. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-67925, described as Basketry cradle. Openwork twining.

Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-67926, described as Basketry cradle. Willow.

Hearst Museum object titled Cradle model, accession number 1-67927, described as Basketry cradle. Openwork twining. Broken at top.

Hearst Museum object titled Creel, accession number 1-67934, described as Coiled.

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