Basket bowl

Museum number:
1-148885
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1955
Description:
Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.
Donor:
Kathleen Morehouse
Collection place:
Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Del Norte; Crescent City
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Emma Lang Morehouse and Herbert Harrison Morehouse
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
14 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket bowl, accession number 1-148885, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket bowl, accession number 1-148885, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket bowl, accession number 1-148885, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket bowl, accession number 1-148885, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket bowl, accession number 1-148885, described as Twined basket. Adiantum fern stem design material. Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot, slightly indented. Warp material is hazel. Background weft is conifer root. The weft design overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern stem. At the starting knot there is an inch of three strand twining. After that is plain twining for .5 inch. After that two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until the rim where there are three rows of three strand twining. The design on the base is a ring of black and tan spiral overlay. That is followed by one ring of maidenhair fern. On the sides there are three sets of a diagonal stacked parallelograms outlined by stepped triangles. At the rim is a ring of alternating beargrass and maidenhair fern. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is only on the outside. There is a hair woven into the basket. The basket is from Northwest California.

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