Serving tray

Museum number:
1-10521
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010521
Alternate number:
b 9 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.247
Description:
Flat openwork basketry tray. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work basket serving tray, probably not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow (Salix) warps with peeled willow wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining with three rows of close twined weft rows at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Donor:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection place:
Bridgeville, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Bridgeville
Culture or time period:
Nongatl
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as a "salmon plate.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 28 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 16" Per Ruth Merrill: Twined Salmon plate; Warp is Hazel, weft is Alder root.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Serving tray, accession number 1-10521, described as Flat openwork basketry tray. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work basket serving tray, probably not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow (Salix) warps with peeled willow wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining with three rows of close twined weft rows at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Serving tray, accession number 1-10521, described as Flat openwork basketry tray. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work basket serving tray, probably not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow (Salix) warps with peeled willow wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining with three rows of close twined weft rows at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Serving tray, accession number 1-10521, described as Flat openwork basketry tray. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work basket serving tray, probably not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow (Salix) warps with peeled willow wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining with three rows of close twined weft rows at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Serving tray, accession number 1-10521, described as Flat openwork basketry tray. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work basket serving tray, probably not used. Crossed warp starting knot. Probably willow (Salix) warps with peeled willow wefts. Starting at the starting knot there is plain twining with three rows of close twined weft rows at the rim. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

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