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Start Over Loans S1993-1994 #16: Sun Gallery (April 11, 1994–June 23, 1994)
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71227, described as Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: horizontal band of 5 inverted diamond or hourglass figures in solid brown, bordered by thin brown lines encircling basket. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70520, described as Coiled, bottle neck. Quail crests on shoulders. Materials: grass coil, cladium sewing, design in black and redbud.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71323, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-233731, described as Coiled. 3 - rod foundation of willow root, willow shoot warp. Wefts of sedge root (light) and bulrush root (dark). Main design motif consists of staggered, descending rectangular forms.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-3030, described as Spherical bowl basket; diagonal - twined basket. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). With unfinished rim with warps of various lengths. Diagonal triangle and parallelogram design in red.
Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-27886, described as Overlay twined, largest at bottom. Brown design. Label from Samuel Barrett found loose in basket, does not belong to this basket. "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined fancy basket, in the shape of a storage basket. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft background material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with red dyed woodwardia overlay designs. From the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is four horizontal undulations of zigzags with triangles on them. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single sided, on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwest California.

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