Object class: Cooking baskets / Loans: S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Cooking baskets 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.