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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd, accession number 3-15821d, described as Gourd cup, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with a-c with red, orange, and green cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd, accession number 3-15821b, described as Gourd cup, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with a, c-d with red, orange, and green cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd, accession number 3-15821c, described as Gourd cup, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with a-b, d with red, orange, and green cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd, accession number 3-16527, described as Drinking gourd; oval shape; made by cutting gourd in half along long axis; ca. 20 cm. long.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd bowl, accession number 3-15822, described as Negative painted bowl of crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); three bands of geometric designs; circular design on bottom; 22.5 cm maximum diameter. Brown
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd cup, accession number 3-15821a, described as Gourd cup, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with b-d with red, orange, and green cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourds, accession number 3-15821a-d, described as Four gourd cups, crescentia cujete ("tree gourd"); painted black with floral designs incised through paint; strung together with with red, orange, and green cord.
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-16423, described as Servilleta; white cotton; brocade; gauze-like plain weave; colored stripes; center reads "No me olvidas"; fringed; 25 x 27 inches
Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-16422, described as Huipil; 4 widths unbleached muslin; row-on-row of varicolored silk embroidery around neck; floral motifs; 38 x 46 1/2 inches
Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-148890, described as Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.

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