Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-59991
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010059991
Alternate number:
28 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4195
Description:
Round with concave base. Circular geometric design in black on straw-colored ground. Conifer root warp and weft, plain twined, white grass and maidenhair fern half twist overlay. Label "# 28 Scott loan". Second label "N.W. Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inch of plain twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining followed by 3 weft rows of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of plain twining, followed by 4 weft rows of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim. The main design is two bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside, with two bands of beargrass overlay on the inside but no design. The rim is trimmed. The surface of the basket undulates due to the warps. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Southern Humboldt Athabaskan.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes and Southern Humboldt Athabaskan
Collector:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection date:
before 1986
Materials:
Common beargrass (weft overlay), Conifer root (wefts), and Hazel shoots (warps)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
December 19, 1986
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 5 centimeters and diameter 9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-59991, described as Round with concave base. Circular geometric design in black on straw-colored ground. Conifer root warp and weft, plain twined, white grass and maidenhair fern half twist overlay. Label "# 28 Scott loan". Second label "N.W. Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inch of plain twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining followed by 3 weft rows of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of plain twining, followed by 4 weft rows of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim. The main design is two bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside, with two bands of beargrass overlay on the inside but no design. The rim is trimmed. The surface of the basket undulates due to the warps. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Southern Humboldt Athabaskan.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-59991, described as Round with concave base. Circular geometric design in black on straw-colored ground. Conifer root warp and weft, plain twined, white grass and maidenhair fern half twist overlay. Label "# 28 Scott loan". Second label "N.W. Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inch of plain twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining followed by 3 weft rows of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of plain twining, followed by 4 weft rows of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim. The main design is two bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside, with two bands of beargrass overlay on the inside but no design. The rim is trimmed. The surface of the basket undulates due to the warps. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Southern Humboldt Athabaskan.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-59991, described as Round with concave base. Circular geometric design in black on straw-colored ground. Conifer root warp and weft, plain twined, white grass and maidenhair fern half twist overlay. Label "# 28 Scott loan". Second label "N.W. Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inch of plain twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining followed by 3 weft rows of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of plain twining, followed by 4 weft rows of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim. The main design is two bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside, with two bands of beargrass overlay on the inside but no design. The rim is trimmed. The surface of the basket undulates due to the warps. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Southern Humboldt Athabaskan.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-59991, described as Round with concave base. Circular geometric design in black on straw-colored ground. Conifer root warp and weft, plain twined, white grass and maidenhair fern half twist overlay. Label "# 28 Scott loan". Second label "N.W. Calif Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inch of plain twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining followed by 3 weft rows of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of plain twining, followed by 4 weft rows of diagonal twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim. The main design is two bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside, with two bands of beargrass overlay on the inside but no design. The rim is trimmed. The surface of the basket undulates due to the warps. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Southern Humboldt Athabaskan.

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