Object class: Baskets by technique / Collection place: Central California / Materials: Grass (plant material) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-10214, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is grass, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Red pattern is Redbud. Apparently two baskets, elliptical and recurved, joined by a flat basketry foundation. Both the foundation and the baskets are coiled. Decoration: smaller basket has open red diamond figures in a design termed "rare" by Samuel A. Barrett; larger basket has red variant on zigzag pattern. Designs are in redbud.

Hearst Museum object titled Sifting basket, accession number 1-3991, described as Sifting basket; coiled. Grass (Sporobolus rigens) warp, Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) background weft. Red design in redbud and black pattern in brake fern (Pteris qiulina).