Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-230668
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
56 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2563
Description:
Twined. 3 areas of diagonal parallelograms in dark brown with zigzags in yellow - dyed porcupine quills within. Minor cracks on body. Tag on inside "Klamath R. tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and yellow dyed porcupine quill. At the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, after that 11/2 inch of plain twining, after that one weft row of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is a row of three strand twining. The design is three sets of diagonal parallelograms in black with zigzags in yellow. On the base there is a beargrass overlay of a ring of triangles with a black ring around it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the area of collection, Weitchpec, the basket is either Yurok or Hupa.
Donor:
Mr. W. W. Lyman, Sarah A. Lyman, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Hupa and Yurok
Collector:
Mr. W. W. Lyman
Collection date:
1925
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9 centimeters and diameter 12 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-230668, described as Twined. 3 areas of diagonal parallelograms in dark brown with zigzags in yellow - dyed porcupine quills within. Minor cracks on body. Tag on inside "Klamath R. tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and yellow dyed porcupine quill. At the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, after that 11/2 inch of plain twining, after that one weft row of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is a row of three strand twining. The design is three sets of diagonal parallelograms in black with zigzags in yellow. On the base there is a beargrass overlay of a ring of triangles with a black ring around it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the area of collection, Weitchpec, the basket is either Yurok or Hupa.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-230668, described as Twined. 3 areas of diagonal parallelograms in dark brown with zigzags in yellow - dyed porcupine quills within. Minor cracks on body. Tag on inside "Klamath R. tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and yellow dyed porcupine quill. At the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, after that 11/2 inch of plain twining, after that one weft row of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is a row of three strand twining. The design is three sets of diagonal parallelograms in black with zigzags in yellow. On the base there is a beargrass overlay of a ring of triangles with a black ring around it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the area of collection, Weitchpec, the basket is either Yurok or Hupa.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-230668, described as Twined. 3 areas of diagonal parallelograms in dark brown with zigzags in yellow - dyed porcupine quills within. Minor cracks on body. Tag on inside "Klamath R. tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem and yellow dyed porcupine quill. At the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, after that 11/2 inch of plain twining, after that one weft row of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, were there is a row of three strand twining. The design is three sets of diagonal parallelograms in black with zigzags in yellow. On the base there is a beargrass overlay of a ring of triangles with a black ring around it. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. Based on the area of collection, Weitchpec, the basket is either Yurok or Hupa.

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