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Start Over Object class Cooking baskets Collector Mrs. Robert Griesche
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-164127, described as Plain-twined with band of overlay design near rim. Tag "Nongatl att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with food residue and abrasions from cooking stones. The materials are probably willow warps with a conifer root weft and a beargrass overlay. There is a crossed warp starting knot. Beginning at the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 1 1/2 inches, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining up to a 1/2 inch from to the rim, followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main overlay design has one horizontal design band of beargrass, with outlines of triangles. There are three incomplete horizontal lines of beargrass on one side of the basket. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is predominately on the exterior. The surface undulates. This is a Southern Humboldt Athabascan basket, possibly Nongatl.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-164122, described as Twined, globular with overlay designs, including zigzag rows. Note use of rare 3-strand parallel twining on bottom for reinforcing rows. Tag "Lassik attr.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket storage or cooking bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwestern California style. Warps are a peeled shoot and wefts are conifer root with a beargrass and maidenhair fern overlay. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 5/8 inch, followed by plain twining for 1/2 inch followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 1 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 5/8th of an inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining up to two weft rows from the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The design is a background band of beargrass with two horizontal bands of mixed maidenhair fern and conifer root zigzags. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and interior, with the exterior being the finer overlay. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.

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