Twined, globular; design of diagonally stacked red lozenges with black borders on light ground. Rim is out of shape. Tag "Klamath River Tribes Att.", second tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular twined basket bowl. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, indented. The warp material is probably willow or hazel. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red- dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is three strand twining that extends for .75 inches, changing to diagonal twining for 1 inch, and then two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by .75 inches of diagonal twining with overlay. Plain twining continues up to the rim where there are two weft rows of three strand twining. The main design is a repeating design of three stacked parallelograms. It is framed above and below by small bands of alternating woodwardia and beargrass. The basket's base has no overlay. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has a rightward work direction with an exterior workface. The overlay is on the outside. The rim is trimmed. The basket is from Northwestern California.
Donor:
Stuart C. Way
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Stuart C. Way
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Treasure baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Trinket basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.2 centimeters and diameter 11.5 centimeters