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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 1-71274, 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 1-71442, described as Coiled, bowl-shaped, trinket basket.
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 1-71238, 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-211549a,b, described as Trinket basket with cover. Diagonal designs in red and black.
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).

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