Finely woven old basket. Tags: "Nongatl" Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used, with food residue and abrasions from use. The materials are either willow or hazel warps with a conifer root weft and a beargrass overlay. There is one commercial cotton string at the rim. There is a crossed warp starting knot. Beginning at the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by 1 1/4" of diagonal twining, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by one weft row of plain twining , followed by 1 weft row of three strand twining. Plain twining continues for 3 inches, followed by one weft row of lattice twining , followed by one weft row of plain twining, followed by 1 weft row of lattice twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed. The main overlay design is difficult to see, there is one or two bands separated by lattice twining, with triangles in positive and negative. The slant of weft twist is up to the right, with a rightward work direction. The basket has an exterior workface. The overlay is on the exterior.
Donor:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection place:
Bridgeville, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Bridgeville
Culture or time period:
Nongatl
Collector:
Pliny Earle Goddard
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used for serving acorn soup.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 21.4 centimeters and height 8.9 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-8620" Remarks: "The imposed [design] = katondil, geese flying the basket = tounnic.