Mortar hopper

Museum number:
1-235220
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Mortar hopper.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 43 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235220, described as Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235220, described as Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235220, described as Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar hopper, accession number 1-235220, described as Twined basketry. Point - like design in brown and beige materials on beige ground. Newly made. Unused. There is a swastika in ink on the interior. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper. The warp material is probably willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. Commercial string is used to bind down the end of the lattice twining. At the base there is one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of lattice twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining. After that one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining followed by one weft row of lattice twining, followed by one more row of three strand twining. After that plain twining for .5 inch, followed by one weft row of three strand twining at the rim. The rim consists of braded warps, bound down on the interior, the warps are trimmed, yet are still an inch long. The design is comprised of five polygons in conifer root in a horizontal band of beargrass around the center of the basket, as well as a band of vertical alternating beargrass and conifer root below the rim. 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 primarily on the outside. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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