Mortar basket

Museum number:
1-2541
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
175 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.93
Description:
Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
Blocksburg, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Blocksburg
Culture or time period:
Lassik
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Common beargrass and Conifer root
Taxon:
Pinophyta and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 19.4 centimeters and diameter 34.7 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "tcusda" Photo: "15-4884" Published: "BAE B 78 Pl 24; AAE V 32 #1 pl 58 b" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 17" Per Ruth Merrill: Warps are Hazel, wefts are Conifer root. Two strengthening hoops of Willow.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #82: Mills College, Art Department (March 23, 1967–April 19, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2541, described as Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2541, described as Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2541, described as Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2541, described as Basket mortar. Tag "Lassik", second tag "tcusda Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mortar hopper, maybe used, with little or no residue. Missing starting knot, with a 3 1/2 inch opening at bottom side. Warps are a peeled shoot and the wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) design overlay. The lattice twined rod is covered with a peeled shoot material. Starting at the base there is three strand twining for 2 1/4 inches, followed by one row of lattice twining, followed by 1/4 inch of three strand twining, followed by 5 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by a 1/12th of an inch row of open work parallel warps. The rim is wrapped, around a large rod. The design is about 15 horizontal rows of beargrass with the first band being plain followed by 14 rows of widely spaced crenulations, with successive amplified contours. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and irregularly in the interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right.

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