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Start Over Culture or time period California tribes Accession number Acc.1773
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-224008, described as Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-224009, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Very fine old Indian basket N W $25_00". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there are two weft rows of plain twining, followed by three strand twining for 1/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining 1/2 inch below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of beargrass diagonals outlined in triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwest California. There are some gray, possibly animal, hairs on the interior.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-224010, described as Basketry hat, twined. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is red-dyed Woodwardia with maidenhair fern and beargrass designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for ⅓ inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to 0.5 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of two stacked parallelograms and three sets of two diagonal stacks of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is mostly single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Hearst Museum object titled Sunshade, accession number 1-223998, described as Basketry. Twined, narrow. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, lid/ sunshade shaped. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, which is partially wrapped. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is plain twining until .5 inch from rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design at the start is a beargrass sunburst, followed by two single weft rows of beargrass, followed by a band of beargrass triangles, followed by an inch-wide band of beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Hearst Museum object titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-224005, described as Winnowing tray, twined. Rim damage.

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