Black parallelogram design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maiden hair fern. At the starting knot there is 2 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim. The design is a band of beargrass near the rim with three black maiden hair parallelograms. 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 rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Leonard L. Valdivia, Mrs. Gerald H. Hagar, and Thomas N. Barrows
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
David P. Barrows
Collection date:
1918
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1954
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 12.6 centimeters and height 6.1 centimeters