Culture or time period: American cultures / Accession number: Acc.2163 / Function: 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Culture or time period American cultures Accession number Acc.2163 Function 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions

Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-164061a,b, described as (a) Basket; coiled; short; cylindrical; rim dia. 23.4cm. (b) lid w/ Knob; rim dia. ca. 23cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 2-34355, described as Pottery bowl; shallow with incurving rim; polychrome; 4 pairs of black dots equally spaced on rim; black and red stylized bird (?).

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-164062, described as Fancy basket"; twined; globular; parallelogram design in brown and yellow with black outline. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Second tag "Klamath River Tribes Attr.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined "fancy" storage basket, unused. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by .5 inch of diagonal twining followed by 1 inch of plain twining followed by 1.5 inches of diagonal twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining followed by one single weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket is almost entirely covered in overlay. The main design is diagonal zigzags within stacked parallelograms. At the rim is a band of vertical alternating beargrass and woodwardia. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California.