Treasure basket

Museum number:
1-164439
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2029
Description:
Globular twined basket; black outlined red parallelograms. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maiden hair fern, and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 3/4 inch followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there is 1 weft row of three strand twining. The design at the base and at the rim are bands of red dyed woodwardia with diagonal lines radiating from it. The primary design is three sets of offset stacked red dyed woodwardia parrallelograms outlined in maidenhair fern. 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 Northwestern California.
Donor:
Louise Heintz
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Edward K. Schaad
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1965
Context of use:
For trinkets.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 11.7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-164439, described as Globular twined basket; black outlined red parallelograms. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maiden hair fern, and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 3/4 inch followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there is 1 weft row of three strand twining. The design at the base and at the rim are bands of red dyed woodwardia with diagonal lines radiating from it. The primary design is three sets of offset stacked red dyed woodwardia parrallelograms outlined in maidenhair fern. 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 Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-164439, described as Globular twined basket; black outlined red parallelograms. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maiden hair fern, and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 3/4 inch followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there is 1 weft row of three strand twining. The design at the base and at the rim are bands of red dyed woodwardia with diagonal lines radiating from it. The primary design is three sets of offset stacked red dyed woodwardia parrallelograms outlined in maidenhair fern. 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 Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-164439, described as Globular twined basket; black outlined red parallelograms. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maiden hair fern, and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 3/4 inch followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there is 1 weft row of three strand twining. The design at the base and at the rim are bands of red dyed woodwardia with diagonal lines radiating from it. The primary design is three sets of offset stacked red dyed woodwardia parrallelograms outlined in maidenhair fern. 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 Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Treasure basket, accession number 1-164439, described as Globular twined basket; black outlined red parallelograms. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maiden hair fern, and red dyed woodwardia fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining. After that plain twining, that has beargrass overlay, for 3/4 inch followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. After that there is plain twining until the rim where there is 1 weft row of three strand twining. The design at the base and at the rim are bands of red dyed woodwardia with diagonal lines radiating from it. The primary design is three sets of offset stacked red dyed woodwardia parrallelograms outlined in maidenhair fern. 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 Northwestern California.

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