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Start Over Collection place Trinity County, California Taxon Pinophyta
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2550, described as Bowl. Tag "Tcunus Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwest California style. Warps are a peeled shoot and wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) overlay. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed, with many of the warp sticks extending up to 1/16 of an inch above the rim. The design is three horizontal bands, with beargrass outlining diamonds followed by a beargrass zigzag, followed by another band of diamonds. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.

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