Collector: Roland Burrage Dixon / Culture or time period: Northwestern California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-14535, described as White, brown bottom. Design of vertical rows of triangles. Label on basket reads: "Shasta Indian`s work".

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14530, described as Openwork cooking basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Red color is Alder-dyed (Alnus) chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa). Rim of Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14525, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). White band and triangles around rim. Yurok type.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14528, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Vertical rows of white zigzags. Not of Yurok type.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Game, accession number 1-14532, described as Cup and ball game. Pointed wooden pin attached to free-sliding fish vertebrae (9) on twisted fiber cord. Red cloth tie at end of cord.

Hearst Museum object titled Harpoon point, accession number 1-14531, described as Split bone shaft attached to metal point with string and mastic. Cord attached.

Hearst Museum object titled Soup bowl, accession number 1-14526, described as Similar (to 1-14525?) basket, smaller, with zigzag band of white near rim. Yurok type. Per Ralph Shanks: Soup bowl. Plain twined with three strand twining at base. Materials are conifer root weft with overlay of beargrass. Two bands of reinforcing around the middle done in lattice twining.