Tray

Museum number:
1-20841
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Openwork basketry tray of hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Tag: "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork tray. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows increasing from the starting knot, and then decreasing at the last three rows below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Trays, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 25.4 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 11.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Tray, accession number 1-20841, described as Openwork basketry tray of hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Tag: "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork tray. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows increasing from the starting knot, and then decreasing at the last three rows below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Tray, accession number 1-20841, described as Openwork basketry tray of hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Tag: "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork tray. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows increasing from the starting knot, and then decreasing at the last three rows below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-20841, described as Openwork basketry tray of hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Tag: "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork tray. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows increasing from the starting knot, and then decreasing at the last three rows below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 1-20841, described as Openwork basketry tray of hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). Tag: "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork tray. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows increasing from the starting knot, and then decreasing at the last three rows below the rim. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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