Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-27682
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.643
Description:
Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.
Donor:
R. W. Hanna
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Context of use:
For cooking.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 13 centimeters and height 7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27682, described as Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27682, described as Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27682, described as Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27682, described as Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-27682, described as Close twined, decorative band (hole in bottom). Tags "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1.5 inches below the rim, where two weft rows of lattice twining are separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, which is trimmed. The main design is located below the lattice twining, it is a repeating pattern of diagonal zigzags. There are several sets of one additional zigzag above the lattice twining. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California, the shape is similar to that of Karuk cooking baskets.

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