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Start Over Object class Twined weaving Taxon Erethizon dorsatum
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 2-48346, described as Round. Made of twined tule or cattail, dyed porcupine quill. Geometric design including triangles with yellow dyed porcupine quill, outlines.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-97976, described as Tray. Plain twined. Round, geometric and floral design in straw color with red and yellow highlights on dark brown ground, openwork around rim. Made with conifer root, white grass and dyed porcupine quill overlay. Human hair twined into weft near rim.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-14250, described as Basket; twined. Warp and weft are twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus). White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Red pattern is Tule root. Black color is mud-dyed Tule, yellow dye is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina). Diminuitive basket. Design black and yellow triangles.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12750, described as Food basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). White pattern is Reed (Phragmites vulgaris). Brown color is Tule root. Yellow dye is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina). Red and yellow parallelograms in diagonal pattern. Indigenous name: maska.
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-20849, described as Twined basketry with decorative design in black and yellow (porcupine quills).
Hearst Museum object titled Basketry cap, accession number 1-164152, described as Twined basketry cap with yellow-dyed porcupine quill overlay. Tag "Northwest Calif att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined woman's basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot, wrapped with beargrass. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass with designs in yellow-dyed porcupine quill, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is three strand twining for .25 inch, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining. Plain twining continues to .5 inch below the rim where there is one weft row of lattice twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is triangles above and below three horizontal lines. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-12734, described as Wokas tray basket; twined. Warp is twinsted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Nettle string (Urtica). White pattern is Reed (Urtica). Yellow dye is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in lichen. Black color is mud-dyed Tule.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-12819, described as Tray basket; twined. Warp is twinsted Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Nettle string (Urtica). White pattern is Reed (Urtica). Yellow dye is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in lichen. Black color is mud-dyed Tule. Indigenous name: pa'hla.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-2305, described as Cap; twined. Warp is Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is string and Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Black pattern is mud-dyed tule. Yellow pattern is Porcupine quills (Erethizon dorsatum) in Wolf lichen (Letharia vulpina). Modoc type. Twined; dyed black and yellow overlay design. Weft begun with cordage. Flat topped.
Hearst Museum object titled Cap, accession number 1-22459, described as Cap basket, twined, brown decoration. Labels: "256" "Klamath River Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Woman’s twined basket hat. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, yellow dyed porcupine quill, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining. After that, there is one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to 1/2 inch below the rim where there is another weft row of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues to the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The background overlay is beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is a 1/2 an inch of conifer root with no overlay. At the start there are several elements in the shape of an M. The main design is formed by maidenhair triangles with porcupine quill triangles inside them. At the rim there are maiden hair parallelograms with porcupine parallelograms inside them. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is only on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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