Object class: Containers for personal gear / Collector: Salina Davidson / Accession number: Acc.1188 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Containers for personal gear Collector Salina Davidson Accession number Acc.1188

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-29719, described as Twined, wallet shape. Badly broken.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211507, described as Conical; overlaid design in black.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211508, described as Conical burden basket. Alternating light and dark design bands. Base is missing, rim has broken away from body of basket in several places, warps broken in several places. Twining, wefts turn down to the right. Warps are made of willow, weft elements are of Xerophyllum tenax and pine root (probably gray pine).