Object class: Carrying baskets / Media available: legacy documentation / Collection place: Northwestern California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-53651, described as Closely woven. Crushed.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-22573, described as Large. 4 encircling bands if brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10518, described as Border is tied down with buckskin. Tag: "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Open-work twined basket bowl. Crossed warp starting knot. Peeled and some unpeeled shoots, possibly hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), warps and peeled shoot wefts. The rim is reinforced with two rods lashed on with a strip of leather. There is a leather strap that forms a handle. Starting at the starting knot there is 2 1/2 inches of plain twining over two warps, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by plain twining over one warp to the rim. The warps are parallel. The rim is trimmed. The rim has two reinforcing rods on the interior lashed on with buckskin of the type more often seen at the rim of southern Humboldt Athabaskan burden baskets. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-53650, described as Closely woven. Crushed.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211509, described as Openwork twined gathering basket. Added in pencil, "specimen broken and crushed." Tag: "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork burden basket, flattened and broken. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel. The wefts are possibly willow. The basket is plain twined, with the distance between weft rows consistent at approximately an inch. The warps at the rim are woven together and bound down on the interior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Due to the condition of the basket the workface and work direction is undetermined. There is commercial string with bailing wire on one of the rim fragments. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12108, described as Many holes, larger ones repaired with cotton and jute string or split shoot sewing; hoop lashed to top with buckskin, now reinforced with commercial string; bottom of basket patched with stiff leather. Plain twined except for bottom 3.5 cm above patch (probably under patch also) done in 3-strand twining. 2-faced overlay: top design band has light ground with groups of 2 connected parallelograms in dark overlay and dark stripe below; rest of basket except tip has all-over stepped design in white. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 49: tot tocu Two names for burden basket." Two tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined burden basket, used and patched. Starting knot present but obscured by a leather cover. The basket has peeled shoot warps with beargrass and possibly fern stem overlay. There are several patches in different materials including redbud, cotton string, and leather. A rod is lashed on with leather on the interior of the rim. From the bottom of the basket above the leather there is three strand twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the uppermost weft row, where there are some remnants of one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The design in amplified concentric lines. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket slightly undulates.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-10528, described as Old, mended. Grimy and worn, in fragile condition. Hoop broken. Newer coarse twined bottom sewn on with buckskin thong. White overlay, 2-faced. Horizontal diamond bands. 2 rows of triangles like sawteeth just below rim. All plain weave. Label "Nongatl". Per Ralph Shanks: Close-twined conical burden basket, used. No starting knot due to repair. The base is an added on separate basket, made of willow (Salix), tied on with leather lashing. The main basket is probably willow warp with conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts and beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) weft design overlay. There is a reinforcing rod at the interior rim that is a shoot that is attached to the upper weft rows, using a leather cord, with up to the right slanted leather lashing going through the basket every inch or so. Starting after the base repair there is plain twining to the rim. Starting at the base there is about 3 1/2 inches of vertical lines of beargrass followed by five beargrass horizontal diamond bands, with one plain beargrass band separating every two diamond bands. At the rim there are two rows of beargrass triangles separated by a row of plain conifer root. The rim is trimmed. The basket undulates. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket has a flattened side, probably to go flush against the carrier's back. The lashing technique and the undulation of the body of the basket are probably Southern Humboldt Athabaskan characteristics and the conical shape with a narrower flat bottom is Southern Nongatl characteristics.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-71513, described as Burden basket, twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-28558, described as Openwork burden basket. In good condition but fragile; several dark stains. Truncated cone shape; plain twined; about 5 cm from the top, the warps were twisted half way around in pairs; the 4 top rows are closely twined; the warp ends are twined together to create a rim; weft ends were turned upwards to parallel warps a short way. Labels: "Wailaki" crossed out and "Nongatl" Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined burden basket, used, with stains on the interior. Crossed warp start. Peeled willow shoots are used as warp and weft. There are two cotton-like loops on opposite sides of the basket. There are parallel warps throughout the basket except for 2 inches below the rim, where there is one row of crossed warps. At the starting knot there is plain twining for 2 1/2 inches, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim has braided warps and which are bound down on the interior. The basket has a rightward work direction and up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12119, described as Very old burden basket. Fragile. Caked with grime (tarweed?), worn. Hoop broken in 3 places; hole in bottom repaired by crude coiling. Warps broken in one place. Conical shape, plain twined except bottom 7 cm that is 3-strand twining. Hoop lashed to rim with buckskin. Also buckskin sewing at overlap of 2 sticks, splitshoot sewing over a break. White 2-faced (?) overlay design obscured by grime; all of the plain twined area had design of zigzagging stepped parallelograms (?). Per Ralph Shanks: Twined burden basket, used. The original starting knot is partially missing and there is a lighter replacement material coiled at the base. The basket has peeled shoot warps with conifer root wefts and beargrass overlay. From the bottom of the basket above the repair there is three strand twining for 2 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining the rim, which is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The rim has a rod attached with leather lashing on the interior. The overlay is primarily single sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket slightly undulates; one side is flattened, probably from carrying.

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