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Start Over Collector Hugo Taussig Accession number Acc.3768
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-255376, described as Bowl-shaped basket. Twining with overlay designs. Band of triangles below rim, rectangles and triangles on body. Ink - stained interior. Minor rim damage. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is three strand twining that extends for .5 inch, changing to plain twining for 1 inch, and then 1 weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining which continues up to the rim, where the last weft row is three strand twining. Starting at the base the three rod twining has no overlay, after which there is a band of alternating beargrass and woodwardia. At the edge of the base and at the rim there are two horizontal bands of woodwardia triangles with a line of maidenhair fern. The main design is comprised of three elements formed by diagonal sets of triangles and rectangles. The rim has four weft rows of conifer root with no overlay. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is on the outside, with some beargrass overlay carried into the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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