Bowl. Tag: "Tcunus" other side "Lassik". Second tag: "Lassik". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket cooking pot, used, with residue present. Crossed warp starting knot, dissimilar to Northwestern California starting knots. Peeled shoot warps and conifer root (Pinophyta) wefts with an overlay of beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for 1 inch, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed, with the warp sticks extending up to 1/8th inch above the last weft row. The overlay design is two horizontal bands of diamonds followed by one band of downward pointing triangles. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay design is on the exterior and interior faces. 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
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:
diameter 20.3 centimeters and height 15.2 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Tcunus" Photo: "15-4884" Published: "BAE B 78 Pl 24" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 16" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Hazel, weft is Conifer.