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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10303, described as Very old, oval, coiled, narrowing at both top and bottom giving a pouch-like appearance. Decoration barely visible. Seems to have consisted of superimposed triangles with apices up.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20845, described as Coiled, round. Black design said to represent a millipede (?).
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10286, described as Round; twined; drawstring on braided edge; grass stems; decorated with multi-colored worsted; braided worsted and grass handle.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20934, described as Large, bottle-neck, finely coiled jar basket with step pattern in 7 series in spiral order. On the shoulders of the basket between the step spirals are distributed 13 human figures in red and black, said to represent Jesus and the 12 Apostles. So called "Apostolic Basket". Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10280, described as Flexible basket of braided kelp, coiled and sewed, with oval piece of fish skin forming center of bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20976, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca. Black pattern is Devil's horn (Proboscidea althaeifolia). Without prominent shoulder. Decoration is 2 bands rattlesnake design in red and black. On shoulder one band with black zigzag line.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-21011, described as Very small coiled bottle-neck basket with broad mouth and all over design in red and white which consists chiefly of red diamonds in white zigzag field. Tag "Kitanemuk". Glued paper tag mostly removed from base. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket with bottle neck. Deergrass bundle foundation. Pinhole start. The basket has red Joshua tree root background wefts. The designs are tan willow. The design is stepped diamonds in a horizontal band, often referred to as a snake skin pattern. There are tan rim ticks. The base has orange, tan, and red stripes. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with clipped weft fag ends. Plain wrapped rim, the coil ending is tapered. The wefts are not tightly spaced. The basket has a tag that states Kitanemuk, the materials and techniques agree with this attribution, but the design and the extensive use of Joshua tree root for the color red is a Kawaiisu tradition.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20938, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Yucca root. Red pattern is Yucca, White pattern is Willow (Salix).
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20942, described as Jar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca, black pattern is Break fern (Sporobolus rigens). Neck coiled basket with red zigzag design above black design of oblique rows of dots. Shoulder ornamented with red yarn and quail crests.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-10288, described as Flexible, overlaid, twined, with flat bottom and near perpendicular sides; red, yellow and purple dyed geometric designs in encircling bands.

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