Bowl. Tag: "Tcunus" other side "Lassik". Second tag: "Lassik". Third tag "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot/ eating bowl, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. Peeled shoot warps and conifer root wefts with an overlay of beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The overlay design is a horizontal band of checkered beargrass, followed by diagonal bands of stacked parallelograms followed by one horizontal band. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior with some design on the upper interior face. The basket undulates slightly. The basket has a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
Blocksburg, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Blocksburg
Culture or time period:
Lassik
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 17 centimeters and height 12.4 centimeters