Object name: Burden basket / Materials: Willow (wood) / Function: 1.5 Household - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-16544, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red pattern is Chain fern (Adiantum pedatum) in Alder (Alnus rubra). Rim bound with grape (Vitus californica). Small, twined. Grimy from use. Hoop broken in one spot. 2-faced red and white overlay. All-over stepped design. Below rim, a white band with a geometric motif repeated. Mostly plain twining. 3-strand twining occurs from the bottom up 7 cm; also the two top rows. Hoop stitched to the top. Inside the bottom scaffolding remains the bottom 12 cm. The packstrap is of blue denim and is tied on with buckskin thongs.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-2956, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is WIllow (Salix) and possibly Redbud (Cercis occidentalis), weft is Redbud. Red pattern is Redbud. Leather bottom.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-16543, described as Openwork basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Willow hoop. Medium size, openwork. Rounded bottom and top. Dirty and worn from use. Fragile. Mostly plain twined. Bottom done in more closely worked 3-strand twining. 3 top rows more closely worked. Warp ends twined together to form rim. Hoop tied to inside of rim with cloth strips. Carrying strap of sisal, very long. This type seems to be due to influence of the Athapaskans in Southern Humboldt county.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10528, described as Old, mended. Grimy and worn, in fragile condition. Hoop broken. Newer coarse twined bottom sewn on with buckskin thong. White overlay, 2-faced. Horizontal diamond bands. 2 rows of triangles like sawteeth just below rim. All plain weave. Label "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Close-twined conical burden basket, used. No starting knot due to repair. The base is an added on separate basket, made of willow (Salix), tied on with leather lashing. The main basket is probably willow warp with conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts and beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) weft design overlay. There is a reinforcing rod at the interior rim that is a shoot that is attached to the upper weft rows, using a leather cord, with up to the right slanted leather lashing going through the basket every inch or so. Starting after the base repair there is plain twining to the rim. Starting at the base there is about 3 1/2 inches of vertical lines of beargrass followed by five beargrass horizontal diamond bands, with one plain beargrass band separating every two diamond bands. At the rim there are two rows of beargrass triangles separated by a row of plain conifer root. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket has a flattened side, probably to go flush against the carrier's back. The lashing technique and the undulation of the body of the basket are probably Southern Humboldt Athabaskan characteristics and the conical shape with a narrower flat bottom is Southern Nongatl characteristics.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-449, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is peeled Willow (Salix), weft is peeled Willow. Pattern is unpeeled Willow. Seven twined courses in red.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-3025, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is unpeeled Willow. Border finish in three laps.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-16542, described as Openwork basket; twined Warp is willow (Salix), weft is gray pine (Pinus sabiniana). Medium size, openwork. One side is totally collapsed; has been smashed. Partly held together by strips of cloth. Extremely fragile. Plain twined; top three rows tightly woven. Warp ends braided to form rim. A hoop is tied to rim with 2 types of cordage and lashed with buckskin thongs and what appear to be shoelaces.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10934, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud. Rim bound with Willow (Salix).

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-16540, described as Openwork basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Willow rim. Several breaks and holes; very fragile. Mostly plain twined. Bottom done in closely woven 3-strand twining. Warp ends twined together at top to form rim. Hoop tied inside rim with buckskin strips. Carrying strap is part stiff leather strip and partly a cord which looks like a shoelace.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-3016, described as Burden basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Triangle and zigzag design in red.