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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211517, described as Openwork dish-shaped basket. Tag "NW Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is hazel or willow. At the start there is some reddish plant material. The basket is plain twined over primarily one warp, with the rows spaced approximately .5 inch apart. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71321, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides.

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 1-3055, described as Bell shaped coiled basket with red and black feathers and blue beads. Design of diagonally crossing black bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71600, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71565, described as Coiled, tray.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-70139, described as Coiled, plate shape. Tag "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled low broad bowl basket with sloping sides. It is in the traditional shape of a winnower but does not appear used. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a start of sumac wefts, two inches in diameter. The rest of the basket has tan, orange, and black-dyed juncus as well as some sumac in the center of the design. The design is a zigzag outlined in black with a triangle at the top of each vertical. The workface is on the interior, with a rightward work direction. The basket has primarly clipped as well as some bound under weft fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with a double coil ending, each with tapered herringbone stitching. The additional coil ending is probably formed by adding a coil after the the first coil ending, where the tag is currently located . This was done probably to continue to maintain two plain coils above the main design. The basket is probably Cahuilla, based on the use of the clipped fag ends and the design layout. There is a hair woven into the basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71303, described as Coiled, bowl shaped.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-408, described as Bowl basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pendants of shell beads, glass beads and abalone.