Squat globular fancy basket. Twined. Red diagonal designs with projections tipped in black. Horizontal dark bands across red. There is a swastika in ink on the inside base. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and the designs are in red-dyed woodwardia and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by plain twining until the edge of the base where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, located two weft rows below the rim. At the base there is a band of beargrass overlay with a many-sided star pattern in woodwardia and maidenhair fern. The main design is ten diagonal patterns in woodwardia with horizontal black maidenhair fern lines in them. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is mainly on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Karuk based on the designs.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
Novelty. Made for sale.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 14.5 centimeters and height 8.4 centimeters