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Start Over Donor Mrs. William M. Vicker Materials Common beargrass (weft overlay)
Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-211550, described as Small trinket basket. Black designs composed of triangles. Tag "NW. CA. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 1 inch followed by 3 rows of three strand twining, that have no overlay. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there are 4 weft rows of three strand twining. The design is six alternating sets of six triangles with a bar along the top or bottom. 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.

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