Object name: Storage basket / Object type: ethnography / Taxon: Adiantum pedatum - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-20873, described as Deep flexible twined basket with design in dark red. Shows some wear. Rim broken in several places. Almost completely overlaid except for very bottom. 2-faced overlay, red on white. Elaborate designs. Upper area: V-shaped, combination of triangles and parallelograms. Lower area: right-angled up and down steps bisected by diagonal lines, triangle opposite angle of line turning downwards. Mostly plain twined; some 3-strand twining occurs. Small hoop of shoots is stitched to top to form rim. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is possibly Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax), black pattern is Maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum). Rim hoop Willow (Salix).

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-10578, described as Small storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black dye is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum), red dye is alder-dyed chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa). Diagonal broad stripes across surface.