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Start Over Object name Carrying basket Collector Pliny Earle Goddard
Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-2534, described as Close-woven. Tag "Lassik". Second tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined conical burden basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) overlay, a leather strap and leather lashing at the rim. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 3 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining up to one row below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed, with a rod affixed at the top/interior of the rim with leather lashing, which is threaded through the wefts of the basket. The basket has a small reinforcing rod in the interior base. The design, starting at the base, is one horizontal row of triangles, followed by one plain horizontal row, followed by one horizontal band of zigzags, followed by a lesser band of zigzags, followed by one plain horizontal row, followed by one horizontal row of triangles. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly on the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.
Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-10586, described as Carrying basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Rawhide strap.
Hearst Museum object titled Carrying basket, accession number 1-2528, described as Openwork. Tags "Lassik" and "kailtsai" Per Ralph Shanks: Open work twined conical burden basket with carrying strap, probably used. Crossed warp starting knot, formed by 2 bundles of warps crossed by 2 bundles of warps. Warp and wefts are peeled shoots, probably willow (Salix). Starting at the starting knot there is about 2 inches of close weft plain twining, followed by openwork plain twining over parrallel warps to 1 inch below the rim, where there is a pattern of crossed warps alternating with parallel warps. Rim is trimmed with 1 rod affixed with leather lashing in the Lassik style to the interior. Carrying strap affixed with leather ties.The basket has an exterior workface. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket has one flat side.

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