Basket and lid

Museum number:
1-27894a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210127894a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.641
Description:
a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection place:
Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon
Verbatim coll. place:
Oregon; Klamath; Klamath Falls
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:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
a)— diameter 2.5 inches, a)— height 1.5 inches, and b)— diameter 6.4 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 5-8707. Published: AAE v. 32 #1, pl. 51.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #9: Palo Alto Cultural Center (November 1974–unknown)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-27894a,b, described as a) Basket. Fine twined overlay, globose, concave base, circular geometric design in black on wheat colored ground. b) Lid with braided handle. Made of tule cordage, plain twined, white grass, maidenhair fern overlay. Per Ralph Shanks: Lidded basket with handle on lid. Not tule, but is conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay and maidenhair fern designs. Plain twined, with three strand twining on starting knots on lid and basket. Three strand twining on rim of basket, four rows below the rim. The design and materials indicate this basket is from Northwestern California.

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