Object name: Tobacco basket / Collector: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Accession number: Acc.42 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco basket, accession number 1-2949, described as Jar-shaped tobacco basket with cover fastened by rawhide. Vertical zigzag bands. Tag: "NW Calif". Second tag "250.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it. The following description is for A): Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with the confer root left with no overlay as the design. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of plain twining, followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining, plain twining continues to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 1⅓ inches followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is seven pairs of vertical zigzags. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is a hair woven into the basket.