Object class: Cooking baskets / Culture or time period: North American native cultures / Accession year: [Missing] - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number TB-81, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Used coiled cooking basket with deer grass bundle foundation. The designs in black are bracken fern root. Warp direction is rightward. There are double horizontal bands of stepped designs towards rim and triple bands of the same design towards the base. The basket has an interior work face, with clipped weft fag ends, and a plain wrapped rim. There are two native repairs on the bottom and some rim damage. Old label on bottom says Mono Indians "$25". Hanging tag says "Western Mono- LD. Lost number 16".

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number TB-82, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Large coiled bowl, never used, made to be storage basket or cooking pot. Design is zigzags, two sets of three vertical and three sets of three horizontal. Leftward warp direction. Workface is on the exterior. Clipped fag ends. Diagonally stitched rim finish. Bear grass foundation, background wefts sedge root, black designs are bracken fern root. Might be 1-3083, design description is not quite right but close. Supplementary catalog description matches. This basket is not Yokuts, it is Western Mono, whose basketry is often confused with Yokuts. Two tags, one on maroon string "number is lost" Second has "Lost No. 12" On reverse "Attributed W. Mono L. Dawson 3/6/59".

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number TB-24, described as Per Ralph Shanks: Cooking basket with bear grass and conifer root overlay. Design is visible on inside and outside. The basket is worn and has been cooked in.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-255036, described as Round. Slightly straight sides, flat bottom, plain twined with full - twist and half - twist overlay. Rhomboid and stepped triangle design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot, which wrapped but not covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is unevenly trimmed. The main design is repeating patterns of diagonal stepped triangles and rhomboids. There is also a horizontal band of triangles on the base, and a checkered horizontal band 1 inch below the rim and at the base. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California or possibly neighboring groups.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-211547, described as Twined cooking basket.