Flat, flexible, twined basketry tray. Tag "No. Loc.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket, probably a gambling tray. The warp material is tule cordage. The weft material is string at the start, followed, by tule. The weft overlay design is in beargrass or Phargmites. The basket is plain twined to the rim, where the cordage warps are bound down on the exterior. The design is complex, including triangles on the ends of rectangles in a zigzag pattern. The workface is on the interior. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the interior. The basket is from the Klamath or Modoc cultures. There is a hair woven into the basket, on the exterior near the rim.
Donor:
unknown
Collection place:
California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1914
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 48 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 96