Collection place: Round Valley, Mendocino County, California / Culture or time period: Southern Humboldt Athabaskan / Maker or artist: George Dobson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.