Collection place: North Central California / Culture or time period: Wintu / Taxon: Xerophyllum tenax - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-224786, described as Squat, globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. 4 zigzag design bands. Misshapen and damaged. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax; note 3-strand parallel twining around start.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-224785, described as Globular. Plain twined with designs in overlay technique. Design bands of parallelograms each with 3 vertical columns. Rim damaged. 3 pairs of diagonal rows of parallelograms, i.e. 6 altogether. Peeled shoot warps, pine root weft; overlay in maidenhair fern stem (black) and Xerophyllum tenax.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-255003, described as Basin shape with opening in bottom. Twined with grape vine rim, pine root weft, hazel shoot warp. Overlay of maiden hair fern and Xerophyllum tenax in indeterminate pattern. Reinforcing rim 16 cm from top.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-255004, described as Bowl shape with opening in bottom. Twined with pine root weft and hazel shoot or willow warp, indeterminate overlay pattern of maiden hair fern and Xerophyllum tenax. Rim missing and edge of bottom opening is broken.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4100, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Plain twined. Two winding double bands in dark red. Globose shape. Dirty. All overlay except rim and base. Stepped rectangles of redbud on white ground. 2-faced overlay. 3-strand twining: one row, second from the top; 0 - 4 cm from start; approximately 6.5 - 7 cm from start.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-20873, described as Deep flexible twined basket with design in dark red. Shows some wear. Rim broken in several places. Almost completely overlaid except for very bottom. 2-faced overlay, red on white. Elaborate designs. Upper area: V-shaped, combination of triangles and parallelograms. Lower area: right-angled up and down steps bisected by diagonal lines, triangle opposite angle of line turning downwards. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining occurs. Small hoop of shoots is stitched to top to form rim. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is possibly Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax), black pattern is Maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum). Rim hoop Willow (Salix).