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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-216870, described as Twined with overlay encircling bands in brown, yellow, and black. Buckskin lacing at top. Cover missing. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, in the shape of a tobacco container. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia and maiden hair fern. There is a leather strap woven in below the rim. Starting at the starting knot, there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until the rim, which is trimmed. The design is three horizontal bands of maidenhair fern and woodwardia, alternating with beargrass. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwest California.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-216872, described as Round, flat-top; coiled encircling zigzag bands in red and brown; star on the bottom.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-216873, described as Coiled. Squat with incurving top half. Design consisting of repeating X's in red bud on body. Broken rim. Coiling on single rod found.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-216869, described as Twined, squat, globular. 4 rows of 3 parallelograms each. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, in the shape of a cooking pot, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft background material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with red dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern overlay designs. From the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.25 inch of plain twining, followed by three rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim, where there are two rows of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single sided, on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwest California.