Twined. 3 areas of designs based on rectangles. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att." There is a swastika mark in pen on the back of the basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket plaque. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining, for .25 inch over two warps, and then normal plain twining until .25 inch below the rim where there is open work. The rim is formed by two more weft rows of twining with a rod that was added to support the rim. The rim and the last two weft rows of twining are wrapped in beargrass and maidenhair fern. The main design is three clusters of triangles. The basket has a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily one-sided but a band of design is on the backface. The basket is possibly Whilkut, based the band on the backface. Original description of rectangles does not match the design.
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:
Basketry (object genre), Coasters (containers), and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions