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Hearst Museum object titled Baked clay, accession number 1-45521, described as Smoothed spool-shaped baked clay object.
Hearst Museum object titled Baked clay, accession number 1-38509, described as Fragment of a baked clay object with punctate curvilinear design.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164419, described as Basketry, twined, black and yellow designs. Plain twined. Willow shoot warps, willow root weft with overlay of beargrass leaf, maidenhair fern (black), and porcupine quills dyed yellow with lichens. Label "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, yellow dyed porcupine quill, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The background overlay is beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is an inch of conifer root with no overlay. After that is a horizontal band of maidenhair fern and porcupine quill triangles. After that is a band of maiden hair fern and a band of porcupine quill. The main design band is comprised of triangles and a horizontal porcupine quill stepped pattern. At the rim there is another band of porcupine quill and maidenhair fern followed by truncated maidenhair triangles with porcupine designs on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay only is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Hearst Museum object titled Paint cup, accession number 1-1183, described as Steatite bowl, teardrop-shaped, with round bowl; length: 10.2 cm; width: 8.0 cm; height: 3.0 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Paint cup, accession number 1-1177, described as Steatite bowl, rectangular with curved sides and oval bowl; residual red pigment on interior, bottom chipped. Length: 10.1 cm; width: 6.6 cm; height: 3.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco basket, accession number 1-1601, described as Tobacco basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). With lid; lid held on by 10 leather loops set in body of basket and tied together at top with vegetable fiber string. four repeated geometric designs on body of basket.

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