Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-28153
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.640
Description:
Twined, white zigzag design. A little dirty and worn from use, but still in good condition; 2 lattice-twined ribs in the white horizontal zigzag design; 3-strand twining occurs from start of basket out for a 1.5 cm radius; also 2 rows 6 cm from start. Per Ralph Shanks: The rim is trimmed. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. There is a slight undulation.
Donor:
Gladys Ayer Nomland and Jorgen O. Nomland
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Nongatl
Collector:
Gladys Ayer Nomland
Collection date:
1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets, Lattice twined weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 19.5 centimeters and height 10 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-28153, described as Twined, white zigzag design. A little dirty and worn from use, but still in good condition; 2 lattice-twined ribs in the white horizontal zigzag design; 3-strand twining occurs from start of basket out for a 1.5 cm radius; also 2 rows 6 cm from start. Per Ralph Shanks: The rim is trimmed. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. There is a slight undulation.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-28153, described as Twined, white zigzag design. A little dirty and worn from use, but still in good condition; 2 lattice-twined ribs in the white horizontal zigzag design; 3-strand twining occurs from start of basket out for a 1.5 cm radius; also 2 rows 6 cm from start. Per Ralph Shanks: The rim is trimmed. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. There is a slight undulation.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-28153, described as Twined, white zigzag design. A little dirty and worn from use, but still in good condition; 2 lattice-twined ribs in the white horizontal zigzag design; 3-strand twining occurs from start of basket out for a 1.5 cm radius; also 2 rows 6 cm from start. Per Ralph Shanks: The rim is trimmed. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. There is a slight undulation.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-28153, described as Twined, white zigzag design. A little dirty and worn from use, but still in good condition; 2 lattice-twined ribs in the white horizontal zigzag design; 3-strand twining occurs from start of basket out for a 1.5 cm radius; also 2 rows 6 cm from start. Per Ralph Shanks: The rim is trimmed. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. There is a slight undulation.

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