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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-45419, described as Small, oval, coiled. Body is straw colored with 12 designs made of four squares in cross configuration going around basket in zig-zag pattern. Rim also done in brown. Brown is split devil's claw pod, body is split willow shoot, coiling bundle is split cattail root. Cattail: Typha latifolia. Willow: Salix gooddingii. Devil's claw: Martynia.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-65026, described as Wearing blanket for child. Wool in tapestry weave; red ground; transverse design bands: white terraced rectangles, indigo terraced rectangles, green/yellow zigzags, alternating light red and indigo stripes; carded beige; indigo blocks with attached smaller white blocks; central band is large open diamonds and half diamonds outlined by indigo, white stepped terraces, green and yellow zigzags on field; soiled. Beige is handspun, some yarn may be commercial.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-255011, described as Twined basketry. Geometric design in black, brown, and natural. Made with willow, Woodwardia fern dyed with alder bark and maiden hair fern. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design has a beargrass background with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for 3/4 inch, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is three sets of four stacked parallelograms outlined by two triangles each. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-65022, described as Ceramic, polychrome; red, black and white; geometric and curvilinear designs including some diagonal space fillers in red; several chips, cracks on and extending from rim. Wax or varnish (not original).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-65025, described as Indian-tanned leather (elk?) decorated on both faces with U-shaped design in blue, red and purple glass seed beads. Larger red, blue beads at top (falling off). Thong handle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-65023, described as Drawstring pouch (drawstring missing), U-shaped. Made of walrus intestine over commercial cloth, tufts of red and blue wool yarn and edging of same yarn decorate bag, silk floral embroidery, triangular shapes at top. Poor condition.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 2-65027, described as Wool in tapestry weave; carded beige ground, 2 square crosses with terraced projections (white) in center, blocks of alternating white and brown yarn in field; poor condition.
Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 2-65028, described as Wool in tapestry weave; central design of red crossbars on white surrounded by red/brown fret; some bleeding of red on white; carded beige ground; poorly dyed and woven.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Rug, accession number 2-65029, described as Wool in tapestry weave; designs of rows of beige or white geometric figures on brown diamonds; carded beige ground; 1 minor hole.

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