Object class: Agricultural equipment / Culture or time period: Northern California tribes / Accession number: Acc.247 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10588, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica).

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10529, described as Seed beater or harvesting basket. Dirty from use. Openwork, mixed plain and twill twining; 4 rows at edge more closely twined. Handle: twined around stick bundle; braided warps wrapped around handle near edge of seed beater portion. End of handle flared, more closely twined. Called cultci. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined seed beater, probably used. Materials are perhaps a willow weft; the rods are a peeled shoot, perhaps willow. Where the handle meets the scoop there is a loop of braided willow wrapped four times around the handle. Plain-twined openwork. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an interior workface. The handle is bound to the scoop through scoop start. The rim is trimmed.