Object name: Bowl basket / Collection place: Northeastern California / Culture or time period: Pit River - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71057, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Base is three strand twining, side is plain twining, overlay is beargrass, and design is in redbud. Warp sticks are probably hazel. Warp sticks are irregularly broken off at rim. Designs are four crosses with four smaller crosses within them as well as rectangles around top.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71547, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Base is three strand twining, side is plain twining, overlay is beargrass, and design is possibly black-dyed redbud. Weft is conifer root. Reinforced, redbud wrapped rim. Design is stepped. Basket is stained on the exterior in several places. Weaver's hair woven into basket. Tag:"H CJ Lee Midano (crossed out and hard to read) by Kate 10" dia L.L.L.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-255048, described as Bowl shape, concave bottom, twined with full-twist overlay. Geometric design in black on wheat colored field. Top edge broken. Made with hazel shoots (?), maidenhair fern, redbud and white grass.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71062, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular shaped bowl probably made for sale. Starting knot appears to have been either lost or removed. Materials are hazel shoot warps, conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and black maidenhair fern designs. Entire base is three strand twining; side is plain twined except for uppermost row which is three strand twining. Design is three diagonal zigzags. Tag on basket says "Pitt River". The basket is probably Achumawi or Atsugewi.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71060, described as Twined, bowl shape with incurving rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-242533, described as Bowl-shaped, twined. With triangular designs in reddish brown. Rim damaged.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-164488, described as Twined bowl-shaped. Diagonal rows of triangles, rectangles.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-223887, described as Small, twined, bowl-shaped; stepped triangles design.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-230643, described as Plain twined, pedestal based bowl shape, designs composed of black triangles on ground of beargrass overlay. Willow shoot warp, pine root weft. Willow (?) shoot warp, pine root weft, overlay of Xerophyllum tenax and a black material.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-230642, described as Plain twined, cylindrical bowl shape. Very flexible because of tule or cattail leaf cordage warp. Complex designs in split grass stem overlay on darker ground of tule weft. Warp and weft of tule or cattail leaf, overlay of split grass stem material. Use of grass stem overlay instead of Xerophyllum tenax, and 3-strand braided twining on base are Modoc/Klamath features.