Object class: Treasure baskets / Collector: unknown / Culture or time period: California Desert tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70238, described as Coiled, bottleneck. Tag: "Mission Type". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled bottleneck treasure basket shaped with a shoulder and neck. The foundation is deergrass bundle. The wefts are a peeled shoot such as willow or sumac, orange juncus, a black material that doesn't appear to be juncus, as well as a mottled dark brown material at the rim. The designs are three stepped designs starting at the base and ending at the shoulder. There are three to four undecorated coils at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface, with primarily clipped weft fag ends with some bound under fag ends. The basket has a plain wrapped brown rim with a tapered coil terminating in a herringbone stitch in the last 1/2 inch. Is most likeley from the eastern/ desert California.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71622, described as Coiled, oval shaped. Diagonal zigzags outlined in brown, light brown rim ticks. 3-rod foundation, with non-interlocking stitch. Weave is very tight.