Object class: Culinary containers / Collector: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Culture or time period: North American native cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2963, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Double zigzag bands in dark red.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2998, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Black pattern is Sedge root. Complex zigzag design in black, forming trefoil pattern, with black designs in bullrush root material on a ground of sedge root. Series of tick marks on rim near coil ending.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-3084, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Pine root (Pinus). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Complex designs in dark red. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-3022, described as Spherical basket; diagonal twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge root (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Spheroidal diagonal twined basket. Crossing double triangle design, etc., in black. Per Samuel Barrett: cooking basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4115, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Brown pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Three double diagonal shapes.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4132, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Redbud bark. Boiled. Diagonal triangle and rhomboid patterns, etc. in black.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-4133, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix). Black color is dyed Redbud bark. Diagonal triangle patterns in black.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2946, described as Pliable plain twined bowl basket. Light brown color with two complex white bands. Tag "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with burning on the inside. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until two inches below the rim, where there are three rows of lattice twining separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The main design includes three horizontal zigzag bands, and one sold band of beargrass. The rim is trimmed. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California.