Pliable plain twined bowl basket. Light brown color with two complex white bands. Tag "N.W. Calif". Second tag "Klamath R. Tribes att." Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with burning on the inside. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass. At the starting knot there is .5 inch of three strand twining followed by 2 inches of plain twining followed by two weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues until two inches below the rim, where there are three rows of lattice twining separated by one row of plain twining. Plain twining continues until the rim. The main design includes three horizontal zigzag bands, and one sold band of beargrass. The rim is trimmed. The overlay is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist, and a rightward work direction. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1880-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
May 2, 1902
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 18.2 centimeters and diameter 30.4 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 87