Basketry covered bottle imitation woven over a wood core; twined with overlay; parallelogram design. Tag: "Klamath River Tribes att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basketry covered wooden bottle imitation with handle. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The weft material is conifer root. The weft design overlay is maidenhair fern with a beargrass background. Starting after the starting knot, there is .5 inch of three strand twining, followed by .5 inch of plain twining, followed by .25 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining all the way up to the base of the neck where there is .5 inch of three strand twining. The handle has an unknown twining technique. The main design is three sets of diagonally stacked parallelograms. The rim is trimmed. The basket has a rightward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist, except for one row of three strand twining at the neck which as a down to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Estate of W. H. Middleton
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
W. H. Middleton
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Bottles, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.0 Use not specified (Utensils, Implements, and Conveyances)