Basket

Museum number:
1-211506
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010211506
Alternate number:
53 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1188
Description:
Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.
Donor:
Thad W. Stevens
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
Salina Davidson
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortar baskets (baskets by function) and Mortar baskets (food processing)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1956
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 46 centimeters and height 20 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-211506, described as Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-211506, described as Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211506, described as Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211506, described as Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.

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