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

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-70545, described as Ledger: Coiled basket, bowl shape. Yokuts or Shoshonian design in Yucca root and Matynia. This is 1-70545 based upon ledger description. Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl with outward sloping sides. Kawaiisu based on the use of the “butterfly stitch". Coiled on deer grass bundle foundation. Background is willow. 5 stepped designs in Joshua tree root. Pin hole start. Rim is broken. Rightward warp direction. Most baskets like this were made by the Butterbread Family of Kawaiisu. See Maurice Zigmond in Journal of Anthropology Winter 1978 Kawaiisu Basketry. Has number 1-7054 on paper tag and 27 on tin tag.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71274, described as Coiled, bowl shape (globular), incurved rim. 3-rod foundation of willow shoots, sewing strands of split maple shoots and redbud shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71442, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped, trinket basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-71238, described as Trinket basket, with handle; diagonal openwork twine. Decoration: Redbud. 2 horizontal bands of diagonally-arranged red stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-70913, described as Coiled, bowl shape. Three-rod foundation of willow shoots, sewing strands of sedge root and bulrush root (black).