Collector: Rose Mary Dobbins Lloyd / Donor: Thomas Crooke McCleave / Culture or time period: American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211611, described as Coiled; rim slightly incurving and sloping sides. Decoration: 2 horizontal bands of solid black diamonds and one horizontal band of black vertical zigzags. Dark brown material is bracken fern root. Bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211612, described as Coiled; decoration: 2 bands of solid black horizontal zigzags encircling basket. Shows signs of extensive repair; basket bottom is damaged. Bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-33038, described as Twined, with looped handles. Acculturated shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-33042, described as Twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211609, described as Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-33039, described as Twined, bowl-shaped.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211605, described as Feathered basket. Flat haliotis shell pendants, with clam shell beads strung along the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-33041, described as Twined, butterfly design. Acculturated design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-33040, described as Twined, rim broken intermittently.