Object class: Treasure baskets / Collection place: The Americas / Collector: unknown - 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 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 1-71274, 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 1-144990, described as Basket; coiled, beaded, with lid. Fanciful design in bright colors.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-211550, described as Small trinket basket. Black designs composed of triangles. Tag "NW. CA. Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 1 inch followed by 3 rows of three strand twining, that have no overlay. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there are 4 weft rows of three strand twining. The design is six alternating sets of six triangles with a bar along the top or bottom. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.

Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-168832, described as White, red and black overlay design, perhaps "inverted".

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.

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 1-26819, described as Coiled, oval. Tree design in dark brown.