a) Basket. Globose, overlay twined, brown and black design. b) Lid with braided edge. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined globular basket in a traditional storage basket shape A) with knobbed lid in a non-traditional shape B), probably made for sale. The following description is for A): Indented crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design background is in beargrass, with red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern designs. Starting at the starting knot, there is 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 1/4 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is from the starting knot: 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 2 inches of plain twining, followed by open warps which are crossed in groups of three warps. There is a 1/2 inch insert on the bottom of the lid, which is plain twined. The main design on A) is three sets of a stepped design surrounded on both sides by triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Margaret Corinne Sinclair
Collection date:
1880-1929
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
a)— height 4 inches and a)— diameter 6 inches
Comment:
Photo: 15-8705, 8706. Published: AAE v. 32, #1, pl. 50.