Object name: Canoe shaped basket / Culture or time period: American cultures / Taxon: Pteris quilina - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Canoe shaped basket, accession number 1-10153, described as Boat basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix) and Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Large and in the shape of an elliptical canoe. Decoration consists of 5 groups of black and red horizontal lines; each group contains eleven parallel lines (or stitches). The basket is executed in single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Canoe shaped basket, accession number 1-10157, described as Basket; Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Boat-shaped. Decoration: black geometrical figures. Design material is brackenfern root. Upper portion is single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; lower portion is coiling on a multiple rod foundation with split stitches. Lower part of basket is designed, upper part is not.

Hearst Museum object titled Canoe shaped basket, accession number 1-10352, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-Rod coiling with interlocking stitches; boat-shaped and broad in form. Decoration: large diamond-like figures, outlined in black, extending from rim to base. Foundation material is peeled redbud.