Winnowing tray

Museum number:
1-27595
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010027595
Alternate number:
220 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.643
Description:
Twined flat basketry tray. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "N.W. California 220". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, used probably for winnowing. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, lightly indented. The warp material is willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. A portion of the reinforcing rods are visible, and looks to be red colored creek dogwood, although this does not look to be the only type of rod used. The reinforcement varies between two and one rod. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for .5 inch, below which there is a reinforcing rod on the blackface. Plain twining continues until .5 inch below the rim, where another reinforcing rod on the back face. Plain twining continues until the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design consists of one band of beargrass overlay for one inch from the start, followed by two horizontal bands of triangles. At the rim there is a .5 inch band of weft rows of alternating beargrass and conifer root above and below a band of conifer root. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided, with an irregular beargrass overlay on the back face. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
R. W. Hanna
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Charles Shock, Daniel Ream, and Henry Shock
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Twined weaving, and Winnowers (agricultural equipment)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1929
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
15 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-27595, described as Twined flat basketry tray. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "N.W. California 220". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, used probably for winnowing. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, lightly indented. The warp material is willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. A portion of the reinforcing rods are visible, and looks to be red colored creek dogwood, although this does not look to be the only type of rod used. The reinforcement varies between two and one rod. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for .5 inch, below which there is a reinforcing rod on the blackface. Plain twining continues until .5 inch below the rim, where another reinforcing rod on the back face. Plain twining continues until the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design consists of one band of beargrass overlay for one inch from the start, followed by two horizontal bands of triangles. At the rim there is a .5 inch band of weft rows of alternating beargrass and conifer root above and below a band of conifer root. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided, with an irregular beargrass overlay on the back face. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-27595, described as Twined flat basketry tray. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "N.W. California 220". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, used probably for winnowing. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, lightly indented. The warp material is willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. A portion of the reinforcing rods are visible, and looks to be red colored creek dogwood, although this does not look to be the only type of rod used. The reinforcement varies between two and one rod. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for .5 inch, below which there is a reinforcing rod on the blackface. Plain twining continues until .5 inch below the rim, where another reinforcing rod on the back face. Plain twining continues until the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design consists of one band of beargrass overlay for one inch from the start, followed by two horizontal bands of triangles. At the rim there is a .5 inch band of weft rows of alternating beargrass and conifer root above and below a band of conifer root. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided, with an irregular beargrass overlay on the back face. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-27595, described as Twined flat basketry tray. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "N.W. California 220". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, used probably for winnowing. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, lightly indented. The warp material is willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. A portion of the reinforcing rods are visible, and looks to be red colored creek dogwood, although this does not look to be the only type of rod used. The reinforcement varies between two and one rod. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for .5 inch, below which there is a reinforcing rod on the blackface. Plain twining continues until .5 inch below the rim, where another reinforcing rod on the back face. Plain twining continues until the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design consists of one band of beargrass overlay for one inch from the start, followed by two horizontal bands of triangles. At the rim there is a .5 inch band of weft rows of alternating beargrass and conifer root above and below a band of conifer root. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided, with an irregular beargrass overlay on the back face. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Winnowing tray, accession number 1-27595, described as Twined flat basketry tray. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes att.". Second tag "N.W. California 220". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, used probably for winnowing. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, lightly indented. The warp material is willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. A portion of the reinforcing rods are visible, and looks to be red colored creek dogwood, although this does not look to be the only type of rod used. The reinforcement varies between two and one rod. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining for .5 inch, below which there is a reinforcing rod on the blackface. Plain twining continues until .5 inch below the rim, where another reinforcing rod on the back face. Plain twining continues until the end of the rim, which is trimmed. The design consists of one band of beargrass overlay for one inch from the start, followed by two horizontal bands of triangles. At the rim there is a .5 inch band of weft rows of alternating beargrass and conifer root above and below a band of conifer root. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is primarily one-sided, with an irregular beargrass overlay on the back face. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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