Twined, squat, globular. 4 rows of 3 parallelograms each. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, in the shape of a cooking pot, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft background material is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with red dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern overlay designs. From the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.25 inch of plain twining, followed by three rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim, where there are two rows of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The main design is four sets of three stacked parallelograms. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single sided, on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Mrs. Stanley Curry and Stanley F. Curry
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
April 6, 1970
Context of use:
Fancy Basket" made for sale. Based on old cooking basket shape. "Fancy basket classifies shapes for which an Indian woman would have no specific use, used by white women for decoration.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 23 centimeters
Loans:
S1974-1975 #118: Lawrence Hall of Science/Jennifer White (June 26, 1975–July 1, 1975)