Basket

Museum number:
1-223928
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1701
Description:
Twined. Openwork. 4 bands of triangle designs. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River T.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork slightly tapered basket, non-traditional shape. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The base weft is probably hazel, followed by conifer root wefts. The overlay material is maidenhair fern, beargrass, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is plain twining over multiple warps up to a .25 inch from the edge of the base where the conifer root starts as the weft. At the edge of the base is one row of lattice twining. Going up the side of the basket plain twining alternates with two rows of crossed warp openwork with one row of plain twining between the crossed warps. The rim has two weft rows wrapped with beargrass, reinforced with a rod, it is partially damaged. The main design is horizontal rows of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the design on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Leonard Plotnicov
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Leonard Plotnicov
Collection date:
1963
Materials:
Hazel shoots
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9 inches and diameter 9.25 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-223928, described as Twined. Openwork. 4 bands of triangle designs. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River T.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork slightly tapered basket, non-traditional shape. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The base weft is probably hazel, followed by conifer root wefts. The overlay material is maidenhair fern, beargrass, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is plain twining over multiple warps up to a .25 inch from the edge of the base where the conifer root starts as the weft. At the edge of the base is one row of lattice twining. Going up the side of the basket plain twining alternates with two rows of crossed warp openwork with one row of plain twining between the crossed warps. The rim has two weft rows wrapped with beargrass, reinforced with a rod, it is partially damaged. The main design is horizontal rows of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the design on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-223928, described as Twined. Openwork. 4 bands of triangle designs. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River T.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork slightly tapered basket, non-traditional shape. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The base weft is probably hazel, followed by conifer root wefts. The overlay material is maidenhair fern, beargrass, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is plain twining over multiple warps up to a .25 inch from the edge of the base where the conifer root starts as the weft. At the edge of the base is one row of lattice twining. Going up the side of the basket plain twining alternates with two rows of crossed warp openwork with one row of plain twining between the crossed warps. The rim has two weft rows wrapped with beargrass, reinforced with a rod, it is partially damaged. The main design is horizontal rows of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the design on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-223928, described as Twined. Openwork. 4 bands of triangle designs. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River T.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork slightly tapered basket, non-traditional shape. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The base weft is probably hazel, followed by conifer root wefts. The overlay material is maidenhair fern, beargrass, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is plain twining over multiple warps up to a .25 inch from the edge of the base where the conifer root starts as the weft. At the edge of the base is one row of lattice twining. Going up the side of the basket plain twining alternates with two rows of crossed warp openwork with one row of plain twining between the crossed warps. The rim has two weft rows wrapped with beargrass, reinforced with a rod, it is partially damaged. The main design is horizontal rows of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the design on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-223928, described as Twined. Openwork. 4 bands of triangle designs. Tag "Klamath R. tribes att.". Second tag "Klamath River T.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork slightly tapered basket, non-traditional shape. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The base weft is probably hazel, followed by conifer root wefts. The overlay material is maidenhair fern, beargrass, and red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there is plain twining over multiple warps up to a .25 inch from the edge of the base where the conifer root starts as the weft. At the edge of the base is one row of lattice twining. Going up the side of the basket plain twining alternates with two rows of crossed warp openwork with one row of plain twining between the crossed warps. The rim has two weft rows wrapped with beargrass, reinforced with a rod, it is partially damaged. The main design is horizontal rows of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the design on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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