Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-12099
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1092 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.
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 and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters and diameter 24.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-6634" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12099, described as Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12099, described as Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12099, described as Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12099, described as Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.

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