Sifting tray

Museum number:
1-27891
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.641
Description:
Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.
Donor:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection date:
1880-1929
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.

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