Bowl. Tag "Tcunus Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking bowl, not used. Crossed warp starting knot, not Northwest California style. Warps are a peeled shoot and wefts are conifer root (Pinophyta) with a beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) overlay. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 1/2 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed, with many of the warp sticks extending up to 1/16 of an inch above the rim. The design is three horizontal bands, with beargrass outlining diamonds followed by a beargrass zigzag, followed by another band of diamonds. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior and interior. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The basket undulates.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
Soldier Basin, Trinity County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Trinity; Soldier Basin
Culture or time period:
Lassik
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1903
Materials:
Common beargrass and Conifer root
Taxon:
Pinophyta and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 17 centimeters and diameter 22 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Tcunus" Photo: "15-8629" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 16" According to Ruth Merrill, the warp is Hazel.