Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-12089
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1076 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used for hanging on wall as general receptacle.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 30: kailo
Loans:
S1966-1967 #14: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (October 20, 1966–January 20, 1967)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12089, described as Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12089, described as Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12089, described as Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12089, described as Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12089, described as Hemispherical openwork basket. In good condition. Twill-twined; 4 strands of cotton twine tied onto rim as a handle. 2 rows of close twining at rim. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket bowl, used, per Samuel Barrett was used as a general receptacle hanging basket. Perpendicular crossed warp start, wrapped with crossed double sticks. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts, with a cotton string handle, and cotton tie on the side of the rim. The wefts primarily are over 1-3 warps. The warps are primarily crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added, with the beginning of the warp twisted under a weft stitch and then joined with the old warp. The basket is plain twined, at the rim there are two closer spaced weft rows. The rim is trimmed with warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket slightly undulates, and is slightly oblong, probably due to being hung.

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