Object class: Twined weaving / Collection place: North America / Donor: Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Twined weaving Collection place North America Donor Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar

Hearst Museum object titled Basket cover, accession number 2-29151, described as Twined, yellow and purple whorled design.

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.