A 1903 monograph by A. L. Kroeber on the names and forms of basket designs among the Yurok, Karok and Hupa of northwestern California, with shorter sections on Wishosk, Wintun and other neighboring groups. It describes basket types, materials and twining techniques, then catalogs design motifs by tribe, illustrated with numbered line drawings and photographic plates of baskets and caps. Comparative tables of equivalent design names and a comparison of pattern arrangement and design naming across California tribes follow, with a key to figures and museum catalogue numbers.

Excerpt from Goddard's ethnography of the Hupa of northern California, describing women's basket making. It covers the gathering and preparation of hazel and willow ribs, conifer and deciduous tree roots, bear-grass, maidenhair fern and giant fern, and the dyes used (alder bark, lichen, Oregon grape). It describes the twined construction of the baskets and the forms made: burden baskets, cradles, cooking baskets, storage baskets, acorn pans and women's caps. The text explains the geometric design elements and their Hupa names, with line figures and plates of baskets and materials. A short passage on dentalium shell money follows at the end.

A short excerpt from Goddard's ethnography of the Hupa of northern California describing how they make nets and snares. It covers preparing twine from Iris macrosiphon leaf fibers, using a mussel-shell thumbnail to strip the fibers, and twisting the two-ply cord on the thigh. It also describes the bobbin and elk-horn mesh-sticks used in knotting nets. A plate explanation and photographs show a seine with wood floats and stone sinkers, a bobbin, a thumb shell and mesh-sticks.

S. A. Barrett's 1908 monograph (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 7 no. 3) on the basketry of the Pomo Indians of northern California. It covers materials (willow and hazel foundations, sedge root and other fibers, feathers, beads, shell), twining and coiling techniques, starting knots, border finishes, wickerwork, and basket forms. Most of the work analyzes ornamentation: design arrangement, elemental designs (triangles, rectangles, rhomboids, zigzags, diamonds, quail plumes) and combined patterns, with names recorded in the Northern, Central and Eastern Pomo dialects. It ends with lists of elemental and pattern names, a glossary of Pomo terms, many line figures and photographic plates of baskets.