Bowl - shaped pedestal - based fancy basket, twined. 3 encircling bands of red geometric stepped, triangular designs on light color ground. Rattan rim. Tag " Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl with pedestal, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot. The warps are willow or hazel. The rim has rattan like materials. The weft is conifer root with an overlay of beargrass background and designs in red dyed woodwardia, one weft row of maiden hair fern, and two weft rows of unknown black material that has multiple strands. Starting at the bowl's starting knot there are four weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining up to the rim, where there is 1/8 inch of open work, with crossed warps, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. There are two reinforcing rods on either side of the rim. The pedestal of the basket, starting at the part furthest from the basket bowl, has a similar rim, with two reinforcing rods, followed by 1/8 to 1/4 inch of open work crossed warps, followed by plain twining to where the pedestal meets the bowl, where there is one weft row of three strand twining followed by three weft rows of plain twining, followed by several weft rows of three strand twining. The primary design includes isolated elements of horizontal steps, three stacked vertically. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is single sided, on the exterior, except on the base which is on the interior. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions