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Start Over Object class Culinary containers Maker or artist Sally Ward
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12111, described as Old cylindrical cooking basket with hoop at border. Rim a little flared, 1-faced overlay, white, 3 bands of parallel diagonal lines. Flat bottom, first 3 cm radius from start in 3-strand twining, the next 3 cm radius each row alternates, 1 plain twining, then one 3-strand twining. Top row plain twining, second row 3-strand twining, third row peeled shoots held on by lattice twining. Worn and grimy from use. Two tags "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, with the warp sticks in a non-Northwest California style. Peeled shoot warps, with conifer root wefts and a beargrass overlay. There are a few weft rows that are redder in color. The rim is trimmed, flush, with no warp sticks extending beyond the rim. The basket slightly undulates. The overlay is one-sided, on the exterior workface. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up to the right slant of weft twist.

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