Burden basket

Museum number:
1-211509
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1188
Description:
Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Thad W. Stevens
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
California tribes and Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Salina Davidson
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1956
Context of use:
Gathering basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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