Object class: Cooking baskets / Culture or time period: Maidu / Accession number: Acc.13 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-737, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud bark.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-738, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud bark.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-431, described as Truncate-cone, coiled. Diagonally crossing lines of joined triangles in dark red. Tag: "Maidu". Second tag "Maidu". Third tag "128". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking basket, used. The rim is damaged, with some repairs in string. The basket has a three rod foundation, possible willow. The wefts are bulrush and sedge root. The start is a tight spiral. The basket has an exterior workface. The basket has a leftward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are concealed. The weft moving ends are bound down. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a slightly tapered coil end. There is one design and it is diagonally crossing lines of joined triangles. The basket is from the east side of the Sacramento valley, and is from the Valley Maidu.