Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-235225
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Squat globular fancy basket. Dark brown patterns on straw colored ground. Brown mass surrounded by triangular designs. Sidewise chevrons inside brown mass. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". There is a swastika in ink on the inside. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Indented crossed warp starting knot with a single sided overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or possibly hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem. At the starting knot there is 11/2 inches of three strand twining, after that 2 inches of plain twining, after that two weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. The design is complex with three sets of patterns with triangles and zigzags, with one extra row of triangles between the designs and a ring of small triangles at the rim. At the base is one black ring. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River 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
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Novelty. Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 14.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-235225, described as Squat globular fancy basket. Dark brown patterns on straw colored ground. Brown mass surrounded by triangular designs. Sidewise chevrons inside brown mass. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". There is a swastika in ink on the inside. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Indented crossed warp starting knot with a single sided overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or possibly hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem. At the starting knot there is 11/2 inches of three strand twining, after that 2 inches of plain twining, after that two weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. The design is complex with three sets of patterns with triangles and zigzags, with one extra row of triangles between the designs and a ring of small triangles at the rim. At the base is one black ring. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-235225, described as Squat globular fancy basket. Dark brown patterns on straw colored ground. Brown mass surrounded by triangular designs. Sidewise chevrons inside brown mass. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". There is a swastika in ink on the inside. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Indented crossed warp starting knot with a single sided overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or possibly hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem. At the starting knot there is 11/2 inches of three strand twining, after that 2 inches of plain twining, after that two weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. The design is complex with three sets of patterns with triangles and zigzags, with one extra row of triangles between the designs and a ring of small triangles at the rim. At the base is one black ring. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-235225, described as Squat globular fancy basket. Dark brown patterns on straw colored ground. Brown mass surrounded by triangular designs. Sidewise chevrons inside brown mass. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". There is a swastika in ink on the inside. Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl, not used. Indented crossed warp starting knot with a single sided overlay on the outside. The warp material is probably willow or possibly hazel. The weft is conifer root. The weft overlay background is beargrass, with designs in black maiden hair fern stem. At the starting knot there is 11/2 inches of three strand twining, after that 2 inches of plain twining, after that two weft rows of three strand twining, switching to plain twining until the rim, where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. The design is complex with three sets of patterns with triangles and zigzags, with one extra row of triangles between the designs and a ring of small triangles at the rim. At the base is one black ring. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with an exterior workface. This basket is from Northwestern California.

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