Object name: Storage basket / Culture or time period: American cultures / Accession number: Acc.838 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70287, described as Coiled, bowl shape. 1-70287-70290 not typical Mission but apparently made of sumac sewing, grass coil, Juncus design. Tags: 9.Mission [crossed out] Grass coil sumac Juncas" on back side "South Calie". Tag stapled "4 [over] P". Sticky tag "#9 [over] 20:0". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden/storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. Weft designs are black dyed juncus. The background wefts are sumac. The design is one horizontal row of black outlined diamonds inside a line at the top and bottom. It has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The weft fag ends are bound under. The rim is plain wrapped with a herringbone ending, with a little damage at the end. Based on the techniques and materials this basket is from Southwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-72025, described as Twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-71052, described as Plain twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Willow shoot warp, pine root weft with overlay of beargrass leaf and bark of redbud shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70110, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Paper label adhered to basket "Mission". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden/storage basket, probably not used. The basket has a grass bundle foundation. The wefts are orange, brown and black dyed juncus designs, a sumac base, and a tan juncus background on the remainder of the basket. The uppermost three coils of the basket are sumac, probably used to add strength to the rim. The design is a net of diamonds. The bottom row of the diamonds has a u shape inside them. The interior of the diamonds are shaded with orange juncus. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. It has a tight spiral start and bound under weft fag ends. It has a plain wrapped rim with over an inch and a half of herringbone stitches at the coil ending.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-71081, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Storage basket. Materials are hazel shoot warps, conifer root wefts, with background overlay of beargrass and overlay design of maidenhair fern. Design includes zigzag deer ribs and central triangle designs. Up to the right slant of weft twist. Plain twined except for bottom, where three strand twining surrounds the starting knot, with two additional bands of three strand twining on the base. Probably Achumawi or Atsugewi.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-72021, described as Openwork twining. Tag "Klamath River R. Tribes Att." Second tribe, from Llewellyn Loud, says "Hupa type". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket, unused. Two sets of four warps are crossed at the starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The background wefts are conifer root, some of which is red-dyed, with beargrass and maidenhair fern overlay. At the base there is plain twining for 1 inch, then three strand twining for an inch and a half, followed by one inch of diagonal twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. There are four sets of closer twined rows. The lowest row is plain. The second row is half beargrass and half conifer root. The third set has a beargrass background with a black maidenhair stepped horizontal line; the last set has red-dyed conifer root and beargrass. The rim is covered with an 1900-1944 material. The rim is reinforced. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California, it may be Hupa or other tribes from the Northwest area.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70111, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden and storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. The basket has a central design band with a mottled juncus design of tan and vertical curvilinear bands of orange juncus wefts with stepped bands of black dyed juncus rectangles at the top and the bottom of the design. The wefts above and below the design band are sumac. The basket has an interior workface and the work direction is to the right. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under with some clipped fag ends. The rim is plain wrapped with the coil ending tapered with herringbone stitches. The basket is from Southwestern California. There is a hair woven in four coils below the rim on the interior.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70288, described as Coiled, bowl shape. 1-70287-70290 not typical Mission but apparently made of sumac sewing, grass coil, Juncus design. Tag: Mission is crossed out "Type grass coil juncus black sumac" on back "S. Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled burden/storage basket. Deergrass bundle foundation. Weft designs are black dyed juncus and orange juncas. The background wefts are sumac. The design is one horizontal row of black outlined diamonds. It has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The background weft fag ends are bound under and the design weft fag ends are clipped. The rim is plain wrapped with a herringbone ending, with the very end missing. Based on the techniques and materials, particularly the mixed use of weft fag endings, this basket is from the Cahuilla.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70103, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sumac shoots and Juncus rushes.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-70887, described as Twined, bowl shaped basket. Plain twined, willow shoot warp, weft strands of sedge root, pine root and split redbud shoots.