Object name: Cooking basket / Donor: Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald / Accession number: Acc.811 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61763, described as Round, flat base. Four bands of straw color around upper edge, darkened from use. Rim broken in one area. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 2 3/4 inches of plain twining followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The main design is four horizontal bands of beargrass. The rim is trimmed. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, this shape is common among the Yurok.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61760, described as Round, concave base. Diagonal geometric design in straw color on natural ground. Rim broken in three areas. Plain twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61762, described as Round, concave base. Circular geometric design in straw color around upper edge, darkened from use.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61765, described as Twined, old and much used. Original cat: "Modoc".

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61764, described as Round, concave base. Zig-zag border design on straw colored ground, darkened from use. Rim broken in several areas. Plain twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61759, described as Twined, old and much used. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Probably used for cooking. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The wefts are comparatively small. The weft design overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is a 1 inch of three strand twining. After that 2 inches of plain twining followed by one weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is two weft bands of beargrass near the rim. 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 basket is from Northwest California.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61745, described as Coiled, flat bottom bowl-shape, decorated with 2 groups of diagonal parallel lines pendant to rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Large broad coiled bowl. The basket was used as a cooking pot. Deergrass bundle foundation. The background wefts are sedge root; the designs are bull-rush root. The basket has little design except for two opposing sets of six diagonal parallel stepped lines starting one coil below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward warp direction. The basket has Salinan pinched/ nub weft fag ends. On the interior/ backface of the basket the moving ends are concealed under the weft stitches. The moving ends location is visible due to a slight rise in the covering weft stitch. Many weft stitches are split on the interior of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. Part of the rim coil is missing, including the end.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61761, described as Twined, old and much used.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-61766, described as Plain twined. Round, concave base, border design of diagonal rectangles on straw colored ground, darkened from use, break in one side and part of rim. Original cat read "Modoc