Squat globular fancy basket. Dark brown geometric designs with triangular projections. Diagonal series of squares within each brown mass. Rim is misshapen. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there are two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by a 1/4 inch of crossed warp open work. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The main design is three sets of four diagonally stepped geometric figures outlined in triangles with a diagonal chain of diamonds through the center of the figures. The basket has a rightward work direction, with 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 Northwest California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions