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Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1589, described as Acorn basket. Extremely grimy from use. Globular. Small. Plain twined. White overlay floated on back. Overlapping zigzag design.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1478, described as Acorn basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Brown dye is Conifer in mud. Grimy from use. Plain twined. Single faced overlay, floated on back. 2 lattice twined rows in white overlay.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1863, described as Acorn basket
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1474, described as Acorn basket. Grimy from use. 1 break in rim. Plain twined. Twill twining on bottom. White overlay. Floated on back. 2 lattice twined rows of overlay between design band and rim. Geometric design.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1791, described as Acorn basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Design: Ip'af.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1770, described as Acorn basket, small. Design: xasi'ree.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1765, described as Acorn basket, small. Design: tataktak.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1767, described as Acorn basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Design: kixtakpis and oxunipait (striped).
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-1844, described as Acorn basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Acorn basket, accession number 1-2540, described as Pan Basket. Tags: Lassik, Tugak and second and 3rd tag say Lassik Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, used, probably with acorn processing or acorn flour. Has distinctive Lassik cross warp start. Materials are conifer root weft with bear grass overlay with peeled shoot warps. From the start there is 1 1/2 inches of 3 strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1/4 inch from the rim where we get a single row of 3 strand twining and then 2 weft rows of plain twining. The rim is trimmed with numerous warp sticks extending up to about 1/4 inch from the rim. The slant of weft twist is up and to the right with a rightward work direction. The surface is slightly undulating. The design has about 12 parrallel bands, is single sided with irregular bear grass appearing on the interior. Basket has an exterior workface. The basket is quite distinctive from Northwestern California twining. Pan basket, close woven.

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