Collection place: Northern California / Donor: Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar / Culture or time period: North American native cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-97946, described as Hopper.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-97942, described as Black parallelogram design. 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 maiden hair fern. At the starting knot there is 2 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass near the rim with three black maiden hair parallelograms. 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.