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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-97990, described as Burden basket
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-16589, described as Medium size, openwork, with round bottom.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-97857, described as Twined. Conical.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71426, described as Twined, burden.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12514, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is split tule. White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Black pattern is Tule root.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211507, described as Conical; overlaid design in black.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-97991, described as Circular geometric design in dark brown on straw colored ground.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-22565, described as Conical, with elaborate interdigitating zigzag pattern from bottom to top. "Achomawi-Shasta type".
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-28614, described as Burden basket, tightly twined. Per Ralph Shanks: Burden or gathering basket. Conical. The base is three strand twined, sides are plain twined, reinforced rim wrapped in redbud. Warp sticks are hazel. The wefts are conifer root. Overlay background is beargrass. Designs are probably in redbud. Below rim is a design of a band of diagonal parallelograms. There is a larger mid-level design around body and then third thin star-shaped design around base. The redbud has bloom. Non-native string on rim. Probably made for sale, as there is no evidence of use.

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