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Hearst Museum object titled Backpack basket, seio-kago, accession number 9-23050, described as Backpack basket, or "seio-kago," woven from cypress bark ("hinoki"), originally collected in 1929 for the Attic Museum. The dealer Sunagawa-san said that it was from another dealer in Hotaka in northern Nagano Prefecture. It is knitted in the simplest "ichimatsu" design. Two "loops" made of a weft spanning 3 warps are in the third row of wefts from the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-211508, described as Conical burden basket. Alternating light and dark design bands. Base is missing, rim has broken away from body of basket in several places, warps broken in several places. Twining, wefts turn down to the right. Warps are made of willow, weft elements are of Xerophyllum tenax and pine root (probably gray pine).

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 2-48499, described as Cone shape with geometric design in dark brown on natural ground; badly broken at lower end, upper edge, and around rim. Made with willow warp and weft; diagonal twined.