Lid

Museum number:
1-235245
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010235245
Accession number:
Acc.2861
Description:
Twined basketry. Cover for basket (missing). 3 diagonal series of connected parallelograms with zigzag designs within. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". In black pen on the interior of the basket is an "R" and a swastika, probably owner/ dealer marks. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket lid/ cover. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, covered with maidenhair fern on both sides. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The design is four rows of alternating black and tan at the base, followed by diagonal stepped zigzags. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok based on the designs. There is a hair woven into the basket.
Donor:
Lloyd W. Swift
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Frank Bishop and Josephine Hall Bishop
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Lids (covers), and Twined weaving
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
September 24, 1975
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 12 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Lid, accession number 1-235245, described as Twined basketry. Cover for basket (missing). 3 diagonal series of connected parallelograms with zigzag designs within. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". In black pen on the interior of the basket is an "R" and a swastika, probably owner/ dealer marks. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket lid/ cover. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, covered with maidenhair fern on both sides. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The design is four rows of alternating black and tan at the base, followed by diagonal stepped zigzags. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok based on the designs. There is a hair woven into the basket.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Lid, accession number 1-235245, described as Twined basketry. Cover for basket (missing). 3 diagonal series of connected parallelograms with zigzag designs within. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". In black pen on the interior of the basket is an "R" and a swastika, probably owner/ dealer marks. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket lid/ cover. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, covered with maidenhair fern on both sides. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The design is four rows of alternating black and tan at the base, followed by diagonal stepped zigzags. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok based on the designs. There is a hair woven into the basket.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lid, accession number 1-235245, described as Twined basketry. Cover for basket (missing). 3 diagonal series of connected parallelograms with zigzag designs within. Tag "Kl. R. Tr. Att.". In black pen on the interior of the basket is an "R" and a swastika, probably owner/ dealer marks. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket lid/ cover. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, covered with maidenhair fern on both sides. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining. After that plain twining continues until the rim, where there is one weft row of three strand twining. The design is four rows of alternating black and tan at the base, followed by diagonal stepped zigzags. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwest California, possibly Yurok based on the designs. There is a hair woven into the basket.

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