Object name: Burden basket / Collection place: California / Function: 1.2 Gathering - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-216888, described as Conical twined seed-gathering basket. Thunderbird designs.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-235160, described as Burden basket, twined. 6 major design bands (geometric). Poor condition, base lost.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-242538, described as Conical, openwork, plain twined and twill twined. Not quite finished, lacks trimming of ends and addition of rim stick. No design. Warp ends plaited over one another to form 6 cm. wide selvage.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211508, described as Conical burden basket. Alternating light and dark design bands. Base is missing, rim has broken away from body of basket in several places, warps broken in several places. Twining, wefts turn down to the right. Warps are made of willow, weft elements are of Xerophyllum tenax and pine root (probably gray pine).

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 1-1479, 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.