Round. Convex shape with incurving sides, flat bottom, plain twined with half - twist overlay. Hooked plume design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Bands of light brown. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, after that 1 inch of plain twining, after that one weft row of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is four weft rows of three strand twining. The design is a hooked plume design in red and black on a wheat colored field. At the rim there are bands of black and red and there is also one band of red on the base. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Fancy basket. Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.5 centimeters and diameter 11 centimeters