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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-21376, described as Small square bottomed; brown design.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-21374, described as Small square basket, blue, yellow, red, and brown. Tag on handle reads "25 cts".
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-87049, described as Bottle neck; human figures, red yarn decoration. Tag "Calif. unspef." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket with bottle neck and shoulder. Three rod foundation. Pinhole start. The basket has willow background wefts. The designs are possibly black bracken fern root. There are anthropomorphic figures around the center of the basket, with red yarn between the figures. The neck and rim have lines and zigzag patterns. Near the base there is a repeating pattern of two stepped rectangles under the figures and one rectangle on the bottom of the basket. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with mostly clipped and some bound under weft fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped rim, and the coil ending is tapered. There is a human hair woven in near the red wool and another near the base. The three rod foundation indicates that this probably a Panamint Shoshone basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 3-27233, described as Basket, coiled, straight-sided, fiber hasp at front; hinged lid with matching hasp at front, fiber carrying handle; red pigment splotched on lid and base; H 7.0 cm X Dia (at base) 8.0 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-87051, described as Small. Brown and white.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-87050, described as Tray. Coiled; shallow. Human and dog figure. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket tray. Three rod foundation. The background wefts are peeled shoots the black design wefts are devil's claw pod. The design is four humoid figures in skirts and four dogs/coyotes. The weft fag ends are concealed. The workface is on the interior and the work direction is to the left. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is tapered. This is a Southwest US basket, Arizona or New Mexico.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-21377, described as Oblong bottomed basket; green, orange, blue lines. Handle broken. Tag on handle reads "25 cts".
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-21380, described as Square carrying bag, woven; checkerweave cedarbark in black and brown; carrying loops broken off and missing.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-21378, described as Small crude basket; flaring rim, and black lines.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket with lid, accession number 2-21367a,b, described as Hobby basket of coiled raffia material; a) bowl shaped base with black-outlined red rectangles around outside, irregular diamonds on base, rim diameter 23 cm; b) lid, with black outlined red irregular diamonds, rim diameter 24 cm

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