Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-28458
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.662
Description:
Openwork twined, bowl-shaped. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket. The basket has two pairs of crossed warps at the starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are also possibly hazel. At the rim is a bundle of reinforcing sticks wrapped with probably wild grape. At the base there is plain twining to the edge, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. The warp sticks are crossed at five rows throughout the basket. At the rim the basket has two closer spaced rows of weft. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Ella F. Plummer
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1933
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 inches and height 10 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-28458, described as Openwork twined, bowl-shaped. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket. The basket has two pairs of crossed warps at the starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are also possibly hazel. At the rim is a bundle of reinforcing sticks wrapped with probably wild grape. At the base there is plain twining to the edge, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. The warp sticks are crossed at five rows throughout the basket. At the rim the basket has two closer spaced rows of weft. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-28458, described as Openwork twined, bowl-shaped. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket. The basket has two pairs of crossed warps at the starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are also possibly hazel. At the rim is a bundle of reinforcing sticks wrapped with probably wild grape. At the base there is plain twining to the edge, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. The warp sticks are crossed at five rows throughout the basket. At the rim the basket has two closer spaced rows of weft. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-28458, described as Openwork twined, bowl-shaped. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket. The basket has two pairs of crossed warps at the starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are also possibly hazel. At the rim is a bundle of reinforcing sticks wrapped with probably wild grape. At the base there is plain twining to the edge, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. The warp sticks are crossed at five rows throughout the basket. At the rim the basket has two closer spaced rows of weft. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-28458, described as Openwork twined, bowl-shaped. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket. The basket has two pairs of crossed warps at the starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are also possibly hazel. At the rim is a bundle of reinforcing sticks wrapped with probably wild grape. At the base there is plain twining to the edge, where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining then continues to the rim. The warp sticks are crossed at five rows throughout the basket. At the rim the basket has two closer spaced rows of weft. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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