Basket

Museum number:
1-27890
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.641
Description:
Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.
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:
diameter 15 inches
Loans:
S1973-1974 #3: Oakland Public Museum/Judith Stephens (July 11, 1973–July 30, 1973)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-27890, described as Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-27890, described as Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Basket, accession number 1-27890, described as Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27890, described as Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27890, described as Plate-shaped, overlay twined, brown star design. Tag: "NW Cal Att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, probably made for sale, with non-traditional designs. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining until .5 inch below the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining, after which plain twining continues to the rim. At the base is a five sided star/flower. The main design is a horizontal band four eight sided stars. At the rim there is a horizontal band triangles, with a horizontal band of six pairs of polygons above that. All of the designs are alternating maiden hair fern and woodwardia with a beargrass background. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California. There is twine tied at the bottom exterior.

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