Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-224008
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1773
Description:
Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.
Donor:
Estate of Howard Alden Judy
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Howard Alden Judy
Collection date:
1910-1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 4.5 inches and height 3.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-224008, described as Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-224008, described as Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-224008, described as Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-224008, described as Twined, globular. Series of stepped oblique triangles. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern stem, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for 1.5 inch. After that one weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The design on the base is a band of beargrass. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok.

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