Basket and lid

Museum number:
1-235223a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101235223a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Novelty. Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
(b)— diameter 11.8 centimeters, (b)— height 18 centimeters, and (a)— height 13.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235223a,b, described as Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235223a,b, described as Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235223a,b, described as Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket and lid, accession number 1-235223a,b, described as Tobacco basket shape twined novelty; both lid and basket have designs including parallelograms with vertical stripes and diagonal columns of connected boxes. (a) Basket. (b) Lid. Tag: "KL. R. Tr. att.". There is a swastika in ink on the interior of the basket and in ink on the lid is a symbol similar to an R. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket with constricted mouth A) with lid B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there are 2 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, where there is 1/16th of an inch of parallel warp openwork. The rim is wrapped with beargrass and maidenhair fern. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, the rim is trimmed. The main design on A) and B) is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms with vertical lines inside them as well as three sets of diagonal chains of diamonds. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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