Object name: Burden basket / Donor: Henry B. Hickey Jr. / Function: 1.5 Household - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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