Basket

Museum number:
1-211609
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1317
Description:
Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Katherine Eloise "Kitty" Dobbins McCleave, Rose Mary Dobbins Lloyd, and Thomas Crooke McCleave
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Katherine Eloise "Kitty" Dobbins McCleave, Rose Mary Dobbins Lloyd, and Thomas Crooke McCleave
Collection date:
1960
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 4.5 inches and diameter 6 inches
Loans:
S1964-1965 #31: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (1960–July 21, 1967) and S1967-1968 #7: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (July 24, 1967–April 19, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-211609, described as Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-211609, described as Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211609, described as Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211609, described as Twined tobacco basket with lid and leather cord. Tag "NW Cal att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket in a shape derived from the shape of a man's tobacco storage basket. Globular basket A) with constricted mouth and B) lid. The lid is fastened to the basket by leather straps tied over it and one strap tied through it near the starting knot. The following description is for A): Indented, crossed warp, starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The weft material is conifer root. The weft overlay design is red-dyed woodwardia. Starting at the starting knot, there 1 weft row of plain twining, followed by 3 inches of three strand twining, plain twining continues to 1 inch below the rim, where there is three strand twining all the way from there to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The lid, B), has the same materials and weaving techniques, with the exception of the twining which is: from the starting knot two weft rows of plain twining, followed by 1/2 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The main design on A) is three diagonal parallelograms outlined in triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is single-sided, with the design on the exterior. Both baskets have a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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