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Start Over Collection place Northern Sierras, Northern California Taxon Cladium
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71450, described as Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: 2 thin horizontal zigzags in brown/black (zigzags consist of reversing triangles). Made with cladium root and bracken fern root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71632, described as Coiled; wide mouth with gently sloping sides. Undecorated, but shows signs of having once had a dark overlay design. Made of cladium root. Has numerous insect holes. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches and many split stitches on interior face.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71449, described as Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: 6 diagonal lines of dark brown solid diamonds extending the height of the basket. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches and frequent split stitching (stitches split on interior face). Herringbone border stitch at rim. Made with cladium root and bracken fern root.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71451, described as Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: black geometric forms (triangles and split parallelograms) on golden-brown background. Made with cladium root and bracken fern root. Rim has herringbone border stitch. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71158, described as 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches and, on interior face, some split stitching. Herringbone border stitch at rim; bowl shaped. Decoration: Black diagonal lines crossing so as to outline diamond shapes with central points in each diamond marked. Made with Cladium root. An immense amount of "flower" bug manure was beaten out of basket on November 1945. Basket is rotted from bugs.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71612, described as Coiled, bowl shaped with incurving rim. Decoration: diagonal crossing lines of black "flying geese". Materials include cladium root. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Basket has several insect holes.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71446, described as Bowl shaped, coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches. Decoration: tufts of string and red wool on surface, arranged in thin horizontal bands. Grass coil made with cladium root.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-71443, described as Bowl shaped, with inwards-curving rim. Decoration: bands of solid black, downwards-pointing triangles or arrowpoints (warp, not weft, is in black). Herringbone border stitch. Materials include cladium root. 3-rod coiling. Stitches are mixed interlocking and split (split on interior face). Herringbone border stitch.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-4124, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Unknown warp, weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) and Cladium. Red pattern is boiled Redbud bark. With nearly vertical sides. Decoration: diagonal zigzag bands in black. 3-rod coiling with stitching split on interior face.

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