Object name: Cooking basket / Collection place: Bridgeville, Humboldt County, California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10525, described as Finely woven old basket. Tags: "Nongatl" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with food residue and abrasions from use. The materials are either willow or hazel warps with a conifer root weft and a beargrass overlay. There is one commercial cotton string at the rim. There is a crossed warp starting knot. Beginning at the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 1/4" of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of plain twining , followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues for 3 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining , followed by one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1 weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main overlay design is difficult to see, there is one or two bands separated by lattice twining, with triangles in positive and negative. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior.