Treasure basket

Museum number:
1-148890
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1955
Description:
Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.
Donor:
Kathleen Morehouse
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Emma Lang Morehouse and Herbert Harrison Morehouse
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1964
Context of use:
Trinket basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
21 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-148890, described as Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-148890, described as Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-148890, described as Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-148890, described as Globular trinket basket. Twined. Adiantum fern stem design material. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl "fancy basket". Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining, after that 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, after that 3 weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there are 3 weft rows of three strand twining. The warp sticks are finely trimmed at the rim. Starting at the base the designs are a band of beargrass followed by a band of conifer root and then a horizontal wavy black band. The main body design is two stacked zigzags. Three weft rows below rim are two rows of maidenhair fern. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the materials and techniques this is a Northwest California basket. There are hairs on the bottom of the basket.

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