Treasure basket

Museum number:
1-157447
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2038
Description:
Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.
Donor:
Bynard Taylor and Mrs. Bynard Taylor
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Bynard Taylor and Mrs. Bynard Taylor
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1965
Context of use:
For holding trinkets.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 3.5 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-157447, described as Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-157447, described as Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-157447, described as Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-157447, described as Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-157447, described as Twined globular trinket basket. Overlay designs. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and red dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1.25 inch of diagonal twining followed by a single weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is two weft rows of three strand twining. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay chevrons, followed by a band of beargrass and then two weft rows of red dyed woodwardia followed by one alternating weft row of beargrass and woodwardia. The main design is a horizontal band eight hexagons with four triangles above and below. Continuing up the basket there is a band of downward pointing triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is only on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Karuk.

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