Basket

Museum number:
1-27594
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
211 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.643
Description:
Close twined; red wool through part of rim. Tag "211". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is probably willow. At the start there is some material that looks like wild grape. At the rim there is red and blue string woven in. The basket is plain twined over one warp, with the rows spaced approximately 3/4 inch apart. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California or the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area.
Donor:
R. W. Hanna
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes and Southern Humboldt Athabaskan
Collector:
Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock
Collection date:
unknown
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 13 inches and height 3 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-27594, described as Close twined; red wool through part of rim. Tag "211". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is probably willow. At the start there is some material that looks like wild grape. At the rim there is red and blue string woven in. The basket is plain twined over one warp, with the rows spaced approximately 3/4 inch apart. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California or the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-27594, described as Close twined; red wool through part of rim. Tag "211". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is probably willow. At the start there is some material that looks like wild grape. At the rim there is red and blue string woven in. The basket is plain twined over one warp, with the rows spaced approximately 3/4 inch apart. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California or the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27594, described as Close twined; red wool through part of rim. Tag "211". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is probably willow. At the start there is some material that looks like wild grape. At the rim there is red and blue string woven in. The basket is plain twined over one warp, with the rows spaced approximately 3/4 inch apart. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California or the Southern Humboldt Athabaskan area.

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