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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71510, described as Diagonal twining.

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 1-71420, described as Twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12108, described as Many holes, larger ones repaired with cotton and jute string or split shoot sewing; hoop lashed to top with buckskin, now reinforced with commercial string; bottom of basket patched with stiff leather. Plain twined except for bottom 3.5 cm above patch (probably under patch also) done in 3-strand twining. 2-faced overlay: top design band has light ground with groups of 2 connected parallelograms in dark overlay and dark stripe below; rest of basket except tip has all-over stepped design in white. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 49: tot tocu Two names for burden basket." Two tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined burden basket, used and patched. Starting knot present but obscured by a leather cover. The basket has peeled shoot warps with beargrass and possibly fern stem overlay. There are several patches in different materials including redbud, cotton string, and leather. A rod is lashed on with leather on the interior of the rim. From the bottom of the basket above the leather there is three strand twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the uppermost weft row, where there are some remnants of one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The design in amplified concentric lines. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket slightly undulates.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71500, described as Openwork, twining. Diagonal twining decoration.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-19701, described as Large burden basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 2-18297, described as Diagonal twined, tin bells.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 2-18300, described as Twined, buckskin fringe.

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