Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12114
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012114
Alternate number:
1154 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-6634
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12114, described as Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12114, described as Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12114, described as Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12114, described as Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.

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