Object class: Containers (receptacles) / Collector: Annie Moller / Culture or time period: Klamath River Tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 1-28596, described as Small twined basketry bowl, diamond design. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by three weft rows of a mixture of diagonal twining and plain twining over two warps, after that is a .5 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by .5 inch of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay. After that is a band of maidenhair fern with diagonals coming off of it. The main design is two horizontal bands of diamonds in maidenhair fern, with some smaller diamond filler elements. At the rim there is a band of alternating maidenhair fern and beargrass. 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 only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.

Hearst Museum object titled Wallet, accession number 1-28600, described as Basketry with bandtail pigeon feathers attached.