Parching basket

Museum number:
1-28565
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010028565
Accession number:
Acc.667
Description:
Openwork twined parching basket. Plain twining. One tag with wrong number "2-" instead of 1-. Second tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket tray, used, with one native repair. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel or willow warps and wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining to the below rim. There are three to five closely spaced weft rows at the rim: two plain twined weft rows, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates.
Donor:
Gladys Ayer Nomland and University Appropriation
Collection place:
16-18 miles above Blue Lake, Mad River, Humboldt County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mad River; Upper Mad River
Culture or time period:
Nongatl
Collector:
Gladys Ayer Nomland, Minnie Pete, and Will Taggitt
Collection date:
July 1931
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1931
Context of use:
Parching basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Parching basket, accession number 1-28565, described as Openwork twined parching basket. Plain twining. One tag with wrong number "2-" instead of 1-. Second tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket tray, used, with one native repair. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel or willow warps and wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining to the below rim. There are three to five closely spaced weft rows at the rim: two plain twined weft rows, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Parching basket, accession number 1-28565, described as Openwork twined parching basket. Plain twining. One tag with wrong number "2-" instead of 1-. Second tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket tray, used, with one native repair. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel or willow warps and wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining to the below rim. There are three to five closely spaced weft rows at the rim: two plain twined weft rows, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parching basket, accession number 1-28565, described as Openwork twined parching basket. Plain twining. One tag with wrong number "2-" instead of 1-. Second tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket tray, used, with one native repair. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel or willow warps and wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining to the below rim. There are three to five closely spaced weft rows at the rim: two plain twined weft rows, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parching basket, accession number 1-28565, described as Openwork twined parching basket. Plain twining. One tag with wrong number "2-" instead of 1-. Second tag "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket tray, used, with one native repair. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably hazel or willow warps and wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining to the below rim. There are three to five closely spaced weft rows at the rim: two plain twined weft rows, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket undulates.

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