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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2543, described as Large mush boiler basket. Tag "kitsa Lassik" second tag "Lassik". Third tag "G177". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking bowl, used. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwestern California style, and has several plain twined wefts woven over the warps, see 1-97844 as another example. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 2 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining for 1 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for 5 3/4 inches, followed by a weft row of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining over a large rod, followed by four weft rows of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed, with many of the warp sticks extending up to 1/6th of an inch above the rim. The design is six horizontal bands, one plain band followed by three zigzag bands, followed by one band of triangles, followed by a plain band. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-1201, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-16592, described as Cooking basket; twined. Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica) warp, Conifer root (Pinophyta) weft. Pattern in white Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-1508, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer (Pinophyta). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax), black pattern is Maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum).
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-936, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer (Pinophyta). White pattern is Bear grass (Xerophyllum tenax).
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-14527, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

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