Object class: Containers (receptacles) / Culture or time period: Northwestern California tribes / Taxon: Corylus cornuta californica - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-1209, described as Unfinished cooking basket. Twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-2503, described as Tray basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Per Ralph Shanks: Large, shallow circular basket. Beargrass overlay on conifer root weft. At starting knot 3 strand twining, but bulk of basket is plain twined. 2 rows of 3 strand twining inch below rim. On bottom 4 concentric reinforcing rods.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-9398, described as Openwork tray basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Alder root (Alnus) and Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Black color is mud-dyed. Mostly plain twined. Design very faint, is not overlay, pattern in dyed black.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-9410, described as Openwork tray basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Used. Mixed plain and twill twining, twined rows irregularly spaced.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-9399, described as Openwork tray basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Alder root (Alnus) and Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Black color is mud-dyed. Plain twined. Four stripes of black dyed warp.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-2464, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Fragile, some warps broken near top. Very large, truncated cone, plain twined openwork. Bottom more closely woven, warp ends braided together. Blackened by smoke.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10544, described as Very large openwork burden basket. Plain twined, cylindrical shape. Several mends with shoots and cotton fabric. Bottom is more tightly woven; 3-strand twining. Warp ends twined together to form rim at top. Shoots lashed to inside of rim. The strap is of rawhide of deer. Warp and weft are Hazel.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10518, described as Border is tied down with buckskin. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot. Peeled and some unpeeled shoots, possibly hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), warps and peeled shoot wefts. The rim is reinforced with two rods lashed on with a strip of leather. There is a leather strap that forms a handle. Starting at the starting knot there is 2 1/2 inches of plain twining over two warps, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by plain twining over one warp to the rim. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The rim has two reinforcing rods on the interior lashed on with buckskin of the type more often seen at the rim of southern Humboldt Athabaskan burden baskets. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10589, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder or Sedge root. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-1479, described as Seed gathering basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Conical with flat bottom. Flexible plain twined. 3 strand twined bottom. White overlay floated on back. Lower one - third bands of vertical stripes. Major motif: Vertically zigzagging parallelograms.

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