Round, concave base, sides incurving at rim. Diagonal rectangular design in brown and black on straw colored ground, bands of same on base. Plain twined. Made of white grass and maidenhair fern. Tag "NW Cal Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl, probably made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot indented and covered with maidenhair fern. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. Starting at the starting knot, there is apparently 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 3 weft rows of plain twining, followed by 2 weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by 3 weft rows three strand twining, followed by 1 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim where there is 1/2 inch of parallel warp open work. The rim appears to be comprised of two or more weft rows of twining with reinforcing rods wrapped with beargrass. The main design is a horizontal row of diamonds in woodwardia and maidenhair fern on a beargrass background. The basket has a rightward work direction, with up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, on the exterior. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Sarah Levy and Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Sarah Levy
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Grass (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1942
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17.2 centimeters and height 14 centimeters