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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 5-14501, described as Bottle; pale green glass, thin walled; short neck with rim doubled in and smoothed; rounded body pinched on 4 sides to make it squarish; pontile mark on base. Height: 3.5 centimeters.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-255376, described as Bowl-shaped basket. Twining with overlay designs. Band of triangles below rim, rectangles and triangles on body. Ink - stained interior. Minor rim damage. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is three strand twining that extends for .5 inch, changing to plain twining for 1 inch, and then 1 weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining which continues up to the rim, where the last weft row is three strand twining. Starting at the base the three rod twining has no overlay, after which there is a band of alternating beargrass and woodwardia. At the edge of the base and at the rim there are two horizontal bands of woodwardia triangles with a line of maidenhair fern. The main design is comprised of three elements formed by diagonal sets of triangles and rectangles. The rim has four weft rows of conifer root with no overlay. 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 on the outside, with some beargrass overlay carried into the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Container, netsuke and bead, accession number 9-12542a-c, described as Inro, netsuke, and ojime: The inro (a) is of cylinder shaped carved bone, segmented into four compartments, w/ metal tubes attached to each as cord runners. Top and bottom compartments are closed by separate pieces attached. Interior of each is lacquered. Continuous incised design over all sections of a dragon amidst clouds, w/ a sword entwined by tail. The netsuke (b) is a manju type of dark wood in two pieces turned on a lathe, w/ deep incised scroll pattern design. The purple cord attaches to an inner loop of the under section, and passes thru a hole in the lower section. The ojime (c) is oval shaped metal w/ flat sides, and checkerboard pattern, L. (a) 8cm. W. 3.5cm.; Dia. (b): 4cm.; L. (c) 1cm. The dragon depicted is Amakurikara: rain Dragon. Kurikara rio "Dragon entwinning [entwining] a sword
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 5-14497, described as Glass jar, mold blown? Pale golg with ochre specks. 7 circle motifs around sides.
Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12459, described as Netsuke in the shape of a brown wooden bottle. Snail in ivory peers into the hole. Ivory name plaque mounted in bottom of bottle and two holes on side opposite snail make hanging loop.
Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12452, described as Japan. Ojime: carved ivory bead, of three boys crouched, backs together. One covers his ears, another eyes, and the last his mouth with hands ("Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"). Surfaces angular. Some black paint detail. Height 2 centimeters. Hole runs through, between heads and feet.
Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12451, described as Japan. Ojime, brown bead, with ornate decoration of tiger (tora) and dragon (tatsu) in a bamboo forest. Apparent seam between halves. Diameter 1.7 centimeters.
Hearst Museum object titled Vase, accession number 9-14610, described as Vase, bronze, with relief and gilt decoration: imitation of ancient Ku; cylindrical with wide flared mouth, slight flare at base. 6 centimeters. wide raised ornamented band around middles; Two large ancient stylizations of dragon nose, eyes, brows, ears and horns with giltnhighlights, on 'cloud' fret pattern ground. Dark brown and green patina. height 30 centimeters, max diameter 13.6 centimeter.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Vial, accession number 5-14500, described as Vial; pale bluish-green glass with thick iridescent patina; rim doubled in and smoothed; long neck with pinch mark at base; rounded body, very slight indentation in base, body cracked. Length: 6.3 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Vial, accession number 5-14499, described as Vial; pale blue-green glass; thin-walled, irregular rounded rim, rounded bottom, elongated neck pinched at base; cracked. Height: 8.7 cm.

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