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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-19722, described as Twined

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27935, described as Design: deer excorta. Globular shape. In good condition. Twined. Almost completely covered with 2-faced overlay. Thin stripes at rim. Design on white ground: diagonally stacked striped rectangles create stepped vertical zigzags; dotted stripes on bottom. Mostly plain twined. 3-strand twining occurs: 1.5 cm radius from start; 2-2.5 cm from start; 2 rows at 3.5 cm from start; 2 rows at about 7 cm from start.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-28561, described as Twined. Tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with food residue. The materials are willow warps with a conifer root weft and a beargrass overlay. There is some broken cordage near the rim. There is a crossed warp starting knot. Beginning at the starting knot there is 3/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 3/4 inches of plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. This is followed by 1 inch of plain twining followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 3/4 of an inch from the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main overlay design is a horizontal band of alternating beargrass open squares and closed rectangles. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The surface undulates.