Collector: Mr. W. M. Sell / Culture or time period: North American cultures / Function: 1.5 Household - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236807, described as Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design in black of 2 horizontal rows of diamonds and 2 vertical bands of diamonds. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236835, described as Coiled. Flat bottomed conical shape, designs in red and black. Encircling band near rim of rattlesnake pattern, mixed vertical and isolated patterns in the wide zone below. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots and redbud shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236808, described as Coiled, flat bottom, conical shape. Design of black cross diagonals, some small zigzags and hour glass shapes near the rim, diagonal overstitch on rim. Note: lower section of basket made by differend hand than upper portion. Possibly different tribe since work direction is opposite. Grass bundle foundation; sewing strands of sedge and bracken fern roots. All non-interlocking stitch.f

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236860, described as Coiled, truncated conical shape. Complex zigzag designs in 3-part layout in dark red-brown redbud patterns. Ticked coil end. 3-rod bundle foundation of peeled shoots; sewing strands of split peeled redbud shoots and unpeeled redbud shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-236834, described as Coiled. Flat bottom conical shape, design of 2 narrow horizontal zigzag bands in black. 3 small mends in bottom. Close stitch work. Somewhat worn on interior. Grass bundle foundation, sewing strands in sedge and bracken fern.

Hearst Museum object titled Brush, accession number 1-236818, described as Brush of soaproot (Chlorogalum pomeridianum), handle of boiled soaproot glue.