Object name: Hopper / Culture or time period: North American cultures / Taxon: Xerophyllum tenax - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Hopper, accession number 1-233711, described as Mortar hopper. Twined basketry. Has hazel shoot warp, wefts are hazel shoot at base, pine root higher on body. Xerophyllum tenax overlay, doubled reinforcing bands of fiber wrapped material below rim and above base. Only design is small overlay band near base.

Hearst Museum object titled Hopper, accession number 1-233710, described as Mortar hopper. Twined basketry. Has hazel shoot warp, wefts are hazel shoot at base, pine root higher on body. Xerophyllum tenax overlay, doubled reinforcing bands of fiber wrapped material below rim and above base. Continuous jagged ascending- descending step design around body.

Hearst Museum object titled Hopper, accession number 1-20843, described as Twined basket hopper. Paper tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Brass tag "13". Second paper tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, probably used. The warp material is reddish, with some remaining bark, but unknown. The background weft is conifer root (Pinophyta) as well as a few wefts of unknown material at the base. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the base there is 1 inch of plain twining, over 1-2 rods, followed by 4 weft rows of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining. After that there are two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim consists of braided warps, bound down on the interior; the warps are trimmed nearly flush with the rim. The rim has a reinforcing rod on the interior. The design is comprised of two solid bands of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.