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Hearst Museum object titled Projectile points, accession number 1-16483, described as small obsidian arrowpoints, broken
Hearst Museum object titled Projectile points, accession number 1-16482, described as small obsidian arrowpoints
Hearst Museum object titled Projectile points, accession number 1-16479, described as serrated slender obsidian arrowpoints
Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 1-16471, described as Obsidian spearpoint
Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 1-16470, described as Obsidian spearpoint
Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 1-16469, described as Obsidian spearpoint
Hearst Museum object titled Spear point, accession number 1-16472, described as Obsidian spearpoint
Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-230661, described as Twined. Large globular basket with 6 vertical designs which are geometric designs with sawtooth edges. Upper and lower part of design are darker than center part. Broken zigzag within each design. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, in the shape of a storage basket. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft background material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with red dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern overlay designs. From the starting knot there is one 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by 3.5 inches of plain twining, followed by three weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is six vertical zigzags with triangles on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single sided, on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwest California.
Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-230663, described as Twined basket. Design of paired connected diamonds. Design in light colored material. Poor condition. Tag "NW. CA. Unsp.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Probably a trinket basket made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is a .5 inch of three strand twining. After that .5 inch of plain twining followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim where there is a weft row of three strand twining followed by a reinforcing rod wrapped with conifer root. The design is seven pairs of stacked parallelograms. At the rim there is a band of beargrass. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California.
Hearst Museum object titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-230636, described as Close diagonal twining, rounded triangular shape, 2 bands of design in pale brown and 2 rows of checks above. Broken and mended on one side. Willow warp and weft, half-peeled willow for brown designs.

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