Object class: Mortar baskets (food processing) / Collection place: The Americas / Accession number: Acc.2861 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235220, described as Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235221, described as Twined basketry. Encircling design band of elongated geometric form with triangle - like projections in light color on brown ground. Newly made, unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Tag "KL. R. Tr. Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root, and some other unknown material(s) at the base. The weft overlay is beargrass. Leather is used to bind down the warp at the base of the basket. At the base there are 4 weft rows of plain twining over multiple warps, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, with three strand twining in-between and after. Then 3.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining until the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior; the warps are trimmed, and are .5 inch long. The design is comprised of beargrass and conifer root in four stepped elements in a horizontal band. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is a hair woven into the side of the basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235219, described as Twined basketry. Alternating light and dark bands include triangles, diamonds, and zigzags. Dark encircling band through diamond band. Newly - made. Unused. center. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root as well as a few wefts of unknown material at the base. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the base there are three weft rows of plain twining, over 1-3 rods. This is followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by 3.5 inches of plain twining. After that there are two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim consists of braided warps, bound down on the interior; the warps are trimmed nearly flush with the rim. The rim has a reinforcing rod on the interior. The design is comprised of four horizontal bands of triangles in conifer root with a beargrass background, with the uppermost band of triangles having a red-dyed woodwardia tip. There is a horizontal band of maidenhair fern around the center. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.