Basket

Museum number:
1-12090
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1077 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki twined open-work hanging basket. Cross warp starting knot done with 2 pairs of widely spaced warp sticks. The basket is plain twined to the rim, with the uppermost weft rows being closely alligned with one another. The basket is irregularly shaped with a rightward work direction and the wefts are up to the right slant of weft twist. Rim is trimmed with most warp sticks extending above the rim about 1/8-1/4 inch. The basket has a commercial rope/string tied to it so the basket can be hung. The warp rows have 1 to 3 warp sticks. The material is peeled shoots, possibly willow. Fibre strand found in the last weft row from the rim about 2 inches from the rope handle. Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition, just dusty. Plain twining, weft ends turned to parallel a warp up to the top. 2 rows of close twining at the rim, with cut warps extending above. 3 strands of commercial cotton twine knotted together and tied to basket edge as a handle.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used for hanging on wall as general receptacle.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 30: kailo" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are hazel. Openwork.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-12090, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki twined open-work hanging basket. Cross warp starting knot done with 2 pairs of widely spaced warp sticks. The basket is plain twined to the rim, with the uppermost weft rows being closely alligned with one another. The basket is irregularly shaped with a rightward work direction and the wefts are up to the right slant of weft twist. Rim is trimmed with most warp sticks extending above the rim about 1/8-1/4 inch. The basket has a commercial rope/string tied to it so the basket can be hung. The warp rows have 1 to 3 warp sticks. The material is peeled shoots, possibly willow. Fibre strand found in the last weft row from the rim about 2 inches from the rope handle. Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition, just dusty. Plain twining, weft ends turned to parallel a warp up to the top. 2 rows of close twining at the rim, with cut warps extending above. 3 strands of commercial cotton twine knotted together and tied to basket edge as a handle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-12090, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki twined open-work hanging basket. Cross warp starting knot done with 2 pairs of widely spaced warp sticks. The basket is plain twined to the rim, with the uppermost weft rows being closely alligned with one another. The basket is irregularly shaped with a rightward work direction and the wefts are up to the right slant of weft twist. Rim is trimmed with most warp sticks extending above the rim about 1/8-1/4 inch. The basket has a commercial rope/string tied to it so the basket can be hung. The warp rows have 1 to 3 warp sticks. The material is peeled shoots, possibly willow. Fibre strand found in the last weft row from the rim about 2 inches from the rope handle. Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition, just dusty. Plain twining, weft ends turned to parallel a warp up to the top. 2 rows of close twining at the rim, with cut warps extending above. 3 strands of commercial cotton twine knotted together and tied to basket edge as a handle.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12090, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki twined open-work hanging basket. Cross warp starting knot done with 2 pairs of widely spaced warp sticks. The basket is plain twined to the rim, with the uppermost weft rows being closely alligned with one another. The basket is irregularly shaped with a rightward work direction and the wefts are up to the right slant of weft twist. Rim is trimmed with most warp sticks extending above the rim about 1/8-1/4 inch. The basket has a commercial rope/string tied to it so the basket can be hung. The warp rows have 1 to 3 warp sticks. The material is peeled shoots, possibly willow. Fibre strand found in the last weft row from the rim about 2 inches from the rope handle. Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition, just dusty. Plain twining, weft ends turned to parallel a warp up to the top. 2 rows of close twining at the rim, with cut warps extending above. 3 strands of commercial cotton twine knotted together and tied to basket edge as a handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12090, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki twined open-work hanging basket. Cross warp starting knot done with 2 pairs of widely spaced warp sticks. The basket is plain twined to the rim, with the uppermost weft rows being closely alligned with one another. The basket is irregularly shaped with a rightward work direction and the wefts are up to the right slant of weft twist. Rim is trimmed with most warp sticks extending above the rim about 1/8-1/4 inch. The basket has a commercial rope/string tied to it so the basket can be hung. The warp rows have 1 to 3 warp sticks. The material is peeled shoots, possibly willow. Fibre strand found in the last weft row from the rim about 2 inches from the rope handle. Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition, just dusty. Plain twining, weft ends turned to parallel a warp up to the top. 2 rows of close twining at the rim, with cut warps extending above. 3 strands of commercial cotton twine knotted together and tied to basket edge as a handle.

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