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Start Over Object class Baskets (containers) Donor Lloyd W. Swift
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-59093a,b, described as With lid, twined, cylindrical. (a) Basket: diamond designs in orange and purple/black; long, narrow and tapering. (b) Cover: twined material with encircling bands in red and purple/black; attached to (a) by cotton thread.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235262, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Design is paired opposing triangles, each pair either in red or black materials; areas of ticking on rim. Red stained on one side.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235263, described as Money basket"; small-necked jar-shaped coiled basket. Design is diagonal blocks each with red hourglass shaped center and black edges; stained with blue ink.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235231, described as Tall, narrow, flared fancy basket. 4 encircling geometric design bands in red with dark brown outlines. There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket vase, probably made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 1/2 inches plain twining, followed by 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining followed by 1/4 inch of crossed warp open work. The rim appears to be comprised of 1 weft row of twining with reinforcing rods wrapped with beargrass. The main design is three horizontal rows of stepped parallelograms and triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, on the exterior. The basket is from Northwest California. There is a possible human hair woven into the basket, near the center exterior.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235260, described as Coiled; "gift basket" with 3 areas of zigzags in redbud, each going from rim to base; 2 encircling redbud bands on edge of base; sloping sides.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-59100, described as Imbricated, oval. Design is vertical columns of connected rectangles in straw-colored and brown-dyed material. Rawhide loops and broken plaited fiber straps set in sides; undulating rim (damaged); decorations slant to side.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-59099, described as Rectangular, imbricated. With zigzag designs in red/brown/yellow on all 4 sides; damaged rim.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-59097, described as Spiral lattice twining, rectangular. Cover missing. 2 encircling purple bands with facing projecting triangles, 2 encircling plain purple bands.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235218a,b, described as Tall, globular basket with lid. Reduced and embellished version of a traditional food storage basket. Twined, brown geometric designs with dark brown horizontal lines within. (a) Basket. 3 strand parallel twining at rim, rim damaged. (b) Lid. 2 loops top center. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". There is a swastika in ink on the bottom of the lid and on the interior of the basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined storage shaped basket with lid, probably made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel possibly willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is maidenhair and red dyed woodwardia designs with a background of beargrass. On the lid there is a handle made of something like conifer root over a commercial cloth. On the main basket (a) at the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues 3 inches to where there are three weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there are several rows of diagonal twining followed by one row of plain twining at the rim. The main design is geometric zigzags with dark brown horizontal lines within. At the rim there is a horizontal band of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is single sided on the exterior with some design coming through to the interior. The lid (b) has a crossed warp start with three strand twining for 1 inch followed by plain twining until 1 inches from the rim, where there is one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. All of the other techniques are the same as the main basket. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235223a,b, described as Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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