Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-164450
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2029
Description:
Twined bowl-shaped basket with pedestal base; part of openwork rim missing. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bowl with pedestal. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed Woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the crossed warp starting knot at the base of the bowl there is ⅓ inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim, where there is 0.25 inches of openwork, with straight warps, with a rim finish of one row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The pedestal has a rim that is wrapped in beargrass. The design includes diagonal slashes of red dyed Woodwardia. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The main overlay is on the exterior but the interior has overlay as well. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Louise Heintz
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Edward K. Schaad
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1965
Context of use:
Novelty basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-164450, described as Twined bowl-shaped basket with pedestal base; part of openwork rim missing. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bowl with pedestal. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed Woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the crossed warp starting knot at the base of the bowl there is ⅓ inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim, where there is 0.25 inches of openwork, with straight warps, with a rim finish of one row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The pedestal has a rim that is wrapped in beargrass. The design includes diagonal slashes of red dyed Woodwardia. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The main overlay is on the exterior but the interior has overlay as well. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-164450, described as Twined bowl-shaped basket with pedestal base; part of openwork rim missing. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bowl with pedestal. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed Woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the crossed warp starting knot at the base of the bowl there is ⅓ inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim, where there is 0.25 inches of openwork, with straight warps, with a rim finish of one row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The pedestal has a rim that is wrapped in beargrass. The design includes diagonal slashes of red dyed Woodwardia. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The main overlay is on the exterior but the interior has overlay as well. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-164450, described as Twined bowl-shaped basket with pedestal base; part of openwork rim missing. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bowl with pedestal. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed Woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the crossed warp starting knot at the base of the bowl there is ⅓ inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim, where there is 0.25 inches of openwork, with straight warps, with a rim finish of one row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The pedestal has a rim that is wrapped in beargrass. The design includes diagonal slashes of red dyed Woodwardia. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The main overlay is on the exterior but the interior has overlay as well. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-164450, described as Twined bowl-shaped basket with pedestal base; part of openwork rim missing. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined tourist trade basket bowl with pedestal. The warps are hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in red dyed Woodwardia and maidenhair fern. Starting at the crossed warp starting knot at the base of the bowl there is ⅓ inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim, where there is 0.25 inches of openwork, with straight warps, with a rim finish of one row of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The pedestal has a rim that is wrapped in beargrass. The design includes diagonal slashes of red dyed Woodwardia. The basket as an up to the right slant of weft twist, an exterior workface, and a rightward work direction. The main overlay is on the exterior but the interior has overlay as well. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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