Small Washoe Burden Basket

Twined Basket

DPR Collections

Name/Title

Small Washoe Burden Basket

Description

Nice little burden basket with three bands of design- near the mouth there is one of diagonal lines, in the center are two rows of triangles, and near the top is a another diagonal row, running opposite from the one on the other side.

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Great Basin

Continent

North America

Culture/Tribe

Washoe

Native American

Dimensions

Length

11 in

Diameter

9-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

The max width across the mouth is about 9 1/2" now, but it would have been considerably smaller before it was broken.

Material

Willow, Willow - Unpeeled, Willow - Winter Peeled ("Sunburned")

Twined Basket Details

Twined Start

Intersecting layered spokes

Twined Finish

Compound binding, coiled finish

Open/Closed Twining

Predominantly Closed Twined

Predominant Twining Type

Diagonal Twining

Twining Design Techniques

Alternating Material Colors

Warp ("Vertical" Elements)

Warp material

Willow

Primary Warp Type

Simple: Plain or parallel arrangement

Weft ("Horizontal" Elements)

Weft material

Willow - Winter Peeled ("Sunburned"), Willow - Unpeeled

Weft Slant

Z Slant (up to right)

Twined Construction Notes

The first and last design bands, consisting of diagonal lines, are created by alternating peeled and unpeeled willow strands, and are therefore not visible in the interior; the triangles are made with two strands of unpeeled willow and twisting one upside down at the end of each triangle, creating a negative design on the interior.