Small, twined basket with black and white design. "NW Cal att". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket bowl. The basket probably has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). The background weft is conifer root (Pinophyta). The weft design overlay is beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) and a red and black fern. At the starting knot there is a .5 inch of three strand twining. After that .25 inch of plain twining followed by .25 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 at the base is two bands of beargrass. On the side is a horizontal band of vertical rods of alternating beargrass and fern. The design is mirrored on the interior of the basket. The basket base has an undulating surface. 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 on the outside and inside. The basket is from Northeast California, based on the use double sided overlay for all of the designs. The basket may be Wintu.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
Northeastern California tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Materials:
Common beargrass, Conifer root, and Hazel shoots
Taxon:
Corylus cornuta californica, Pinophyta, and Xerophyllum tenax
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7 centimeters and diameter 10.4 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-8618. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 11.