Donor: Theodore R. Barrett / Culture or time period: Northern California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-34313, described as Twined tule rush. Brown and tan design.

Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-164049, described as Basketry, twined geometric designs in overlay technique; brown and yellow. Plain-twined, peeled hazel or willow shoot warps, pine root weft overlay of beargrass leaf and maidenhair fern stems. Label: "Klamath River Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.25 inches of plain twining. Plain twining continues until 3/4 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The background overlay is beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is a 1/2 an inch of conifer root with no overlay. That is followed by one weft row of maiden hair fern. A pattern of a sun/flower in conifer root is made by an outline of beargrass, with one weft of maidenhair fern at the tip of each the rays. The main design is made of three elements comprised all three materials that include two stacked parallelograms with a zigzag through it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is only on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.