Object name: Burden basket / Object type: ethnography / Collection place: Northern Sierras, Northern California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71504, described as Burden basket, plain openwork twined. The point has leather reinforcement; there is a reinforcing hoop half - way down. Two rope strap loops are attached to the reinforcing rim. There is no decoration.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71498, described as Burden basket, plain openwork twining. Reinforcing hoop about halfway down. Decoration: tapering vertical columns of red (warp material) and two double horizontal lines of red/brown encircling basket (weft material).

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-51459, described as Conical with a reinforcing hoop around the rim. Point is reinforced with leather, now worn through. Decoration: 6 concentric, horizontal bands in red. Made with willow split shoots as weft; peeled shoots as warp. Open diagonal twining.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71506, described as Burden basket, plain openwork twined. Basket has a willow hoop reinforcing it at rim and 2 cloth straps near rim. Two leather straps are attached about half - way down. There is a reinforcing rim around the lower portion of basket. Basket is without decoration. Point has been worn through.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-243016, described as Twined, split/unsplit willow shoots, 2 bands of bracken fern root, diamond shape band of winter peeled willow, flat bottom version of traditional burden basket, twine wrapped around rim, small break on one side of rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71240, described as Burden basket, open diagonal twined. Reinforcing (willow?) hoop at rim. Design is produced with use of red and dark weft elements. (The bark appears on one face, then the other, so as to present alternating colored and white stripes. Basket bottom is reinforced with same materials and design. Part of attached (buckskin?) band remains.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-243020, described as Flat bottom burden basket style, twined, split/unsplit willow shoots, 2 bands of bracken fern with red dyed willow shoot, center panel of 2 interlocking zigzag lines of winter peeled willow shoots, one handle of willow wrapped wire.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10007, described as Burden basket, with leather covered point, open diagonal twined. There is no decoration. Made of willow, shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-144610, described as Conical seed-gathering basket. Chevron bands in black and two bands of stacked double triangles in brown.