Object name: Sunshade / Collection place: Northern California / Function: 6.1 Cradles and Swaddling - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Sunshade, accession number 1-164047, described as Lattice twined cradle sunshade basket. Brown, tan and natural. 4 disc clam shell disc beads sewn on exterior.

Hearst Museum object titled Sunshade, accession number 1-223998, described as Basketry. Twined, narrow. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, lid/ sunshade shaped. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, which is partially wrapped. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is plain twining until .5 inch from rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main design at the start is a beargrass sunburst, followed by two single weft rows of beargrass, followed by a band of beargrass triangles, followed by an inch-wide band of beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Sunshade, accession number 1-164148, described as Twined openwork cradle sunshade basket. Tag "Klamath R. River Tribes Att." Second tag "NW Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket, with use stains. The warp material is probably willow and a dark material. It has a crossed warp starting knot with space between the cross. The weft is conifer root. The rim wrap is beargrass and conifer root. At the starting knot there is closer spaced plain twining. After that the there are rows of wefts separated by about .5 to 3/4 inch of openwork warps. At the rim the wefts are spaced closer. There are four areas of striped light and dark warps. The rim is trimmed, with a rod that is wrapped with conifer root and then attached with beargrass in three areas and conifer root in three areas. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Wiyot based on the striped warps.