Object name: Basket / Object class: Culinary equipment for preparing and cooking food / Collection place: Northern California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object name Basket Object class Culinary equipment for preparing and cooking food Collection place Northern California

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-9901, described as Receptacle basket; Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Coiled sifter. Flat in form, undecorated. Single-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-28613, described as Basketry hopper. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, used. Materials are shoot warps, conifer root wefts with beargrass overlay, the rim is redbud wrapped. Designs are formed by the contrast of the beargrass overlay and the unwrapped conifer root wefts. This is common in the Wintu area. Twining from the bottom: three strand interspersed by three rows of latice twining over reinforcing rods, the side is plain twined. Wintu, Achumawi, or Atsugewi.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-13447, described as Basketry mortar hopper. Design, kurulluk "cranes leg." Willow, pine root and squaw grass.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-211506, described as Hopper basket with sawtooth designs in overlay technique. Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, heavily used. Materials are shoot warps which appear to be willow, conifer root wefts, overlay of beargrass, redbud designs, the rim is wrapped with redbud, reinforcing rod at rim which perhaps willow. Bottom begins with three strand twining, then two bands of lattice twining over reinforcing rods, then one row of plain twining, and then three rows of three strand twining. Following that, the rest of the basket is in plain twining until the rim, where there is three strand twining and then a reinforcing rod is wrapped on.