Twined. Used. Stepped, triangular designs in tan material including Woodwardia fern on straw - colored ground. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used worn down to the warps on the interior. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is 1/2 inch of three strand twining followed by 2.5 inches of plain twining followed by one weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until 1 inch below the rim where are two weft rows of lattice twining separated by 1/4 inch of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The main design is a horizontal beargrass band containing geometric figures. The rim is trimmed. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California.
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:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Context of use:
For boiling acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 30 centimeters and height 18.5 centimeters