Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-27166
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Alternate number:
84 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.639
Description:
Twine. Design in brown. Tag "84 N.W. Calif" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl, probably made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is plain twining. There is one weft row of three strand twining two inches from the starting knot. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass on the sides with alternating doubled steps in red-dyed woodwardia fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 6.8 inches and height 5 inches
Comment:
Photo: 5-8707. Published: AAE v. 32 #1, pl. 51 b.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-27166, described as Twine. Design in brown. Tag "84 N.W. Calif" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl, probably made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is plain twining. There is one weft row of three strand twining two inches from the starting knot. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass on the sides with alternating doubled steps in red-dyed woodwardia fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-27166, described as Twine. Design in brown. Tag "84 N.W. Calif" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl, probably made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is plain twining. There is one weft row of three strand twining two inches from the starting knot. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass on the sides with alternating doubled steps in red-dyed woodwardia fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-27166, described as Twine. Design in brown. Tag "84 N.W. Calif" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl, probably made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is plain twining. There is one weft row of three strand twining two inches from the starting knot. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass on the sides with alternating doubled steps in red-dyed woodwardia fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-27166, described as Twine. Design in brown. Tag "84 N.W. Calif" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl, probably made for sale. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is plain twining. There is one weft row of three strand twining two inches from the starting knot. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass on the sides with alternating doubled steps in red-dyed woodwardia fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.

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