Object class: Containers for cooking food / Collection place: Blocksburg, Humboldt County, California / Culture or time period: Northwestern California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Containers for cooking food Collection place Blocksburg, Humboldt County, California Culture or time period Northwestern California tribes

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2553, described as Bowl. Tag: "Lassik", second tag "tcunus" third tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking/food bowl, with no residue. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwestern California style. Warps are a peeled willow and the wefts are conifer root with a beargrass and maidenhair fern overlay. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed, with many of the warp sticks extending up to 1/16 of an inch above the rim. The design is a beargrass background with two horizontal bands of sideways triangles in mixed maidenhair fern and conifer root. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly on the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2545, described as Bowl. Tag: "Lassik" on the back "tcunus", second tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, somewhat dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots.. Peeled shoot, possibly hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), warps and conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts with an overlay of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 1/2 inches, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by 1-2 weft rows of three strand twining, followed by three weft rows of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 3/4 inch of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 3 1/2 inches, followed by one weft row three strand twining at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is six horizontal bands of beargrass, with a top row of zigzags and a middle row of downward pointing triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is primarily on the exterior face with some design evident on the interior. The basket slightly undulates. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12190, described as Cylindrical cooking basket with hoop at border. Almost completely overlaid in 2-faced overlay. White ground has reddish-purple designs; a horizontal stripe near the top; below are 3 parallel bands of rhomboid shapes, each bisected by a plain brown row. 3-strand twining 3 cm radius from start; overlay begins 4 cm from start. Top three rows are not overlaid; peeled shoots sewn on to form rim. "Bele tcecto" per catalog card. Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, slightly indented, with the warp sticks in a non-Northwest California style. Peeled shoot warps, with conifer root wefts and a beargrass and maidenhair fern overlay. The rim is wrapped, with reinforcing rods. The basket undulates. The overlay is two sided, with the exterior workface as the primary side. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The location of manufacture is "north of Blocksburg" which is not Wailaki territory, this area is in the Lassik or possibly Nongatl area. This suggests that the basket is possibly Lassik or Nongatl.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2552, described as Bowl. Tag: "Tcunus" other side "Lassik". Second tag: "Lassik". Third tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot/ eating bowl, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. Peeled shoot warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is a horizontal band of checkered beargrass, followed by diagonal bands of stacked parallelograms followed by one horizontal band. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior with some design on the upper interior face. The basket undulates slightly. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2546, described as Bowl. Tag "tcunus" and on the back "Lassik". Second tag "Lassik". Third tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. Peeled shoot, possibly willow warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is diagonal bands of stacked parallelograms, with a horizontal border above and below. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is primarily on the exterior face with some design evident on the interior. The basket undulates. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2547, described as Bowl. Tag: "Tcunus" other side "Lassik". Second tag: "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. Peeled shoot warps and conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts with an overlay of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed, with the warp sticks extending up to 1/8th inch above the last weft row. The overlay design is two horizontal bands of diamonds followed by one band of downward pointing triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior and interior faces. The basket undulates slightly. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2543, described as Large mush boiler basket. Tag "kitsa Lassik" second tag "Lassik". Third tag "G177". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking bowl, used. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwestern California style, and has several plain twined wefts woven over the warps, see 1-97844 as another example. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 2 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining for 1 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 5 3/4 inches, followed by a weft row of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining over a large rod, followed by four weft rows of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed, with many of the warp sticks extending up to 1/6th of an inch above the rim. The design is six horizontal bands, one plain band followed by three zigzag bands, followed by one band of triangles, followed by a plain band. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.