Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-255036
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010255036
Accession number:
Acc.3683
Description:
Round. Slightly straight sides, flat bottom, plain twined with full - twist and half - twist overlay. Rhomboid and stepped triangle design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot, which wrapped but not covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is unevenly trimmed. The main design is repeating patterns of diagonal stepped triangles and rhomboids. There is also a horizontal band of triangles on the base, and a checkered horizontal band 1 inch below the rim and at the base. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California or possibly neighboring groups.
Donor:
Georgia Ann Scott
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Context of use:
Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 25 centimeters and height 16.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-255036, described as Round. Slightly straight sides, flat bottom, plain twined with full - twist and half - twist overlay. Rhomboid and stepped triangle design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot, which wrapped but not covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is unevenly trimmed. The main design is repeating patterns of diagonal stepped triangles and rhomboids. There is also a horizontal band of triangles on the base, and a checkered horizontal band 1 inch below the rim and at the base. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California or possibly neighboring groups.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-255036, described as Round. Slightly straight sides, flat bottom, plain twined with full - twist and half - twist overlay. Rhomboid and stepped triangle design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot, which wrapped but not covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is unevenly trimmed. The main design is repeating patterns of diagonal stepped triangles and rhomboids. There is also a horizontal band of triangles on the base, and a checkered horizontal band 1 inch below the rim and at the base. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California or possibly neighboring groups.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-255036, described as Round. Slightly straight sides, flat bottom, plain twined with full - twist and half - twist overlay. Rhomboid and stepped triangle design in red - brown and black on wheat colored field. Tag "Klamath River". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, made for sale. Crossed warp starting knot, which wrapped but not covered. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 1.5 inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is unevenly trimmed. The main design is repeating patterns of diagonal stepped triangles and rhomboids. There is also a horizontal band of triangles on the base, and a checkered horizontal band 1 inch below the rim and at the base. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is primarily on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California or possibly neighboring groups.

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