Collection place: Northern California / Donor: University of California Archaeological Survey / Culture or time period: American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-2540, described as Pan Basket. Tags: Lassik, Tugak and second and 3rd tag say Lassik Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, used, probably with acorn processing or acorn flour. Has distinctive Lassik cross warp start. Materials are conifer root weft with bear grass overlay with peeled shoot warps. From the start there is 1 1/2 inches of 3 strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1/4 inch from the rim where we get a single row of 3 strand twining and then 2 weft rows of plain twining. The rim is trimmed with numerous warp sticks extending up to about 1/4 inch from the rim. The slant of weft twist is up and to the right with a rightward work direction. The surface is slightly undulating. The design has about 12 parrallel bands, is single sided with irregular bear grass appearing on the interior. Basket has an exterior workface. The basket is quite distinctive from Northwestern California twining. Pan basket, close woven.

Hearst Museum object titled Arrowhead fragment, accession number 1-207296, described as Made of bottle glass. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Ball, accession number 1-104681, described as Made of tule stem. Oval. "Woven"(?)

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-97859, described as Coiled, sub-globular neckless jar shape, vertical dark bands of "briar root" on sedge root ground, traces of leather on rim coil; handle.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2536, described as Tags: Kaitel, Lassik; Second tag Lassik Per Ralph Shanks: Open work basket, used, with some residue present near the start and between warps. Cross warp start, each crossing is 2 bundles of 3 warps that are bundled together by 3-4 weft stitches on each side. Entire basket is plain twining. From the start there are 3 or 4 stitches over 3 warps at each end of the start, followed by 2 rows of plain stitching over mostly 2 warps, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim has 3 closely spaced weft rows of plain twining with trimmed edges. Warp sticks extend past the rim in a few places aprroximately 1/16 of an inch. Rightward work direction with an exterior work face. Parallel warp. Materials are peeled shoots. Basket is lacking any decorative design. Very little undulation. Openwork pan basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Basketry weft, accession number 1-168989, described as Roll of maple withe split and ready for storage.

Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 1-207350, described as Glass trade bead. Pale blue opaque oval spiral.

Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 1-207377, described as Glass trade bead: red covering, dark green center. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

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