Square bottom, 2 bands white and maidenhair, 2 bands of openwork. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Close-twined and openwork rectangular basket made for sale. Rectangular crossed warp starting knot, extending to the whole base of basket. The warp material is probably willow. The basket has conifer root wefts. The overlay weft material is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed Woodwardia. Starting at the edge of the crossed warp base there is a 0.5 inch of three strand twining followed by .75 inches plain twining, followed by a 0.5 inch of openwork parallel warps, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by ⅓ of an inch of openwork crossed warps. At the rim there are 2 weft rows and a reinforcing rod wrapped with beargrass alternating with red-dyed Woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band of squared undulating beargrass. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the main design on the exterior, and a checkered Woodwardia and beargrass design on the interior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
R. W. Hanna
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 6 inches and height 3.5 inches
Loans:
S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)