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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164414, described as Coiled, cup-shaped, small. Complex black design in three divisions.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164412, described as Coiled; globular. Black designs, incl. diamonds and triangles.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164430, described as Twined, sub-globular, approximates form of a traditional mush-serving basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-44823, described as Coiled basket; sub-globular; faded gray design. Jenny Dick, the weaver states of the design "We assemble around the campfire after a successful hunt among the hills and valleys and tell of the game of Earth we killed". Materials are Red in Circes Occindentalis, Black in Pteris Aquilinium and white in Salix. The basket took 18 days to weave, and has 15 stitches to the inch.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-44824, described as Twined; bucket shaped; red, yellow, and black designs in false embroidery; rim broken away.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164432, described as Coiled; oval-shaped and rather large. Decoration: 5 rows of black zigzag designs; bracken fern root. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Rim is broken in numerous places.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-164431, described as Twined, basin-shaped, brown geometric designs on straw-color ground. Plain-twined, hazel (?) shoot warps, pine root weft, beargrass leaf overlay. 3 strand twining rows for stiffening. Tag "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, meal sifting shaped, not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft material s conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. The basket has three strand twining at the base for 1.5 inches, then it is plain twined up to one inch below the rim, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. The decoration includes three areas of design, with checkered triangles at the base, two stepped horizontal bands with triangles, and the last band with checkered triangles. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the interior. The design overlay is single-sided. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-44822, described as Coiled, flaring. Black "Greek fret" design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-164426a,b, described as a) Basket, twined, globular with black triangles on light ground. b) Lid with knob.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket miniature, accession number 1-164416, described as Coiled. Miniature.