Openwork plain-twined bowl basket. Rim white, brown etc. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att." Second tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket, in the shape of a cradle sunshade. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp and weft material is hazel or willow. The rim is wrapped with beargrass, conifer root, and red-dyed woodwardia. On the interior there is one portion of one weft row that has some material with red bark. The basket is plain twined over primarily one warp, with the rows spaced up to approximately 1 inch apart. The rim is covered, with one weft row and several reinforcing rods. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction. The workface is probably on the exterior. The basket is from Northwestern California, possibly Yurok based on the the provenience of "Lower Klamath River".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Klamath River, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River; Lower Klamath River
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1880-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household and 6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 23 centimeters and height 12.7 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 84" Per Ruth Merrill: Plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica).