Collection place: North America / Culture or time period: Northwestern California tribes / Loans: S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place North America Culture or time period Northwestern California tribes Loans S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967)

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12190, described as Cylindrical cooking basket with hoop at border. Almost completely overlaid in 2-faced overlay. White ground has reddish-purple designs; a horizontal stripe near the top; below are 3 parallel bands of rhomboid shapes, each bisected by a plain brown row. 3-strand twining 3 cm radius from start; overlay begins 4 cm from start. Top three rows are not overlaid; peeled shoots sewn on to form rim. "Bele tcecto" per catalog card. Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, slightly indented, with the warp sticks in a non-Northwest California style. Peeled shoot warps, with conifer root wefts and a beargrass and maidenhair fern overlay. The rim is wrapped, with reinforcing rods. The basket undulates. The overlay is two sided, with the exterior workface as the primary side. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The location of manufacture is "north of Blocksburg" which is not Wailaki territory, this area is in the Lassik or possibly Nongatl area. This suggests that the basket is possibly Lassik or Nongatl.

Hearst Museum object titled Dance basket, accession number 1-2270, described as Dance basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum).

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2541, described as Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.