Object class: Treasure baskets / Collection place: Northwestern California / Loans: S1972-1973 #2: unknown borrower (July 13, 1972–July 18, 1972) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Treasure baskets Collection place Northwestern California Loans S1972-1973 #2: unknown borrower (July 13, 1972–July 18, 1972)

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-164420, described as Twined, globular, red and black designs, stacked triangular units on light ground. Plain twined. Willow (?) shoot warp, pine root and willow or alder root weft with overlay of beargrass leaf, maidenhair fern stem (black) and Woodwardia fern fiber stained red with chewed alder bark. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Indented crossed warp starting knot with a single sided overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is one 1/2 inch of three strand twining, after that 11/2 inch of plain twining, after that two weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is two weft rows of three strand twining. The design is an alternating stacked triangle pattern. On the base there is a ring of slanted parallelograms. At the rim there are two rings of black with red hatches pointing down from it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.