Basket

Museum number:
1-22559
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010022559
Alternate number:
59 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.568
Description:
Plain conical twined basket, white and pale brown material. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Second tag "59". Third tag with "Hupa att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Conical basket, unused. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is primarily beargrass, with one line of maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 3/4 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The design is alternating conifer root and beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior; there is some overlay on the inside. The workface is on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Mary S. Johnson
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)
Accession date:
1921
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1975-1976 #35: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (November 20, 1975–January 29, 1976)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-22559, described as Plain conical twined basket, white and pale brown material. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Second tag "59". Third tag with "Hupa att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Conical basket, unused. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is primarily beargrass, with one line of maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 3/4 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The design is alternating conifer root and beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior; there is some overlay on the inside. The workface is on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-22559, described as Plain conical twined basket, white and pale brown material. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Second tag "59". Third tag with "Hupa att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Conical basket, unused. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is primarily beargrass, with one line of maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 3/4 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The design is alternating conifer root and beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior; there is some overlay on the inside. The workface is on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-22559, described as Plain conical twined basket, white and pale brown material. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Second tag "59". Third tag with "Hupa att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Conical basket, unused. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is primarily beargrass, with one line of maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 3/4 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The design is alternating conifer root and beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior; there is some overlay on the inside. The workface is on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-22559, described as Plain conical twined basket, white and pale brown material. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.". Second tag "59". Third tag with "Hupa att." crossed out. Per Ralph Shanks: Conical basket, unused. The warp material is probably hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is primarily beargrass, with one line of maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 3/4 inch from the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The design is alternating conifer root and beargrass. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The overlay is single-sided on the exterior; there is some overlay on the inside. The workface is on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

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