Donor: Mrs. A. G. McFarland / Culture or time period: California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-64308, described as Carved manzanita wood with lobed carving in the round. Inlaid abalone in heart-shaped and rectangular designs. Point probably modified steel nail.

Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 1-64307, described as Basket awl. Made of bone. Ulna, with distal end sharpened to point (broken off).

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64287, described as Coiled, feathers, shallow, brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64286, described as Twined, shallow, brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64281, described as Twined, large, globular, brown design. Decorated with clam shell disk beads.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64290, described as Coiled, small, oval. Brown design. Attached clam shell disk beads. Rectangular design in brown on natural ground.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64280, described as Twined, large, globular, brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-64299, described as Coiled, shallow, brown design. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled winnowing basket. Single rod coil. The basket has a raffia handle. Sedgeroot wefts with redbud designs and three bands of light colored material on the base of the basket. The start is possibly twined. The work direction is to the left with an exterior work face. The slant of the weft twist is primarily up to the right. The weft fag ends are both concealed and clipped. The moving weft ends are either clipped or primarily concealed. On the backface there are some split stitches. The wefts are interlocking. The rim is plain wrapped with a tapered coil ending. The design is a band repeating three stacked parallelograms followed by a z pattern band near the rim. The basket is probably Pomo or Patwin.