Object class: Twined weaving / Donor: Henry B. Hickey Jr. / Culture or time period: Central California Tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Twined weaving Donor Henry B. Hickey Jr. Culture or time period Central California Tribes

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67857, described as Twined, tray shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67856, described as Twined, tray shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67858, described as Twined, tray shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67842, described as Coiled basket, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Coiled shallow basket with flaring sides, with no use wear or residue. The start is twined. The warps are rods and splints. The wefts are peeled redbud as a background and unpeeled redbud designs. There is another weft material that is an unknown unpeeled plant shoot that is a medium brown. The design is two various color bands with breaks in the bands that line up. There are two random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped with a blunt coil ending, with the warps clipped. The weft fag ends are bound under and the weft moving ends are clipped. On the exterior the wefts are not split and the interior wefts are 75% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials, design, and lack of many random rectangles this is more likely a Wailaki rather than Yuki basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67850, described as Twined, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67841, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints, with the base in all splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud designs at the upper 1/4 and the lower 3/4 design is an unknown unpeeled material and the background is an unknown peeled material. At the start of the basket is a band of half unpeeled redbud and half unknown unpeeled material. The main design is diagonal stepped spirals. There are no clear random rectangles. The weft fag ends are clipped or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped with a few rim ticks in peeled and unpeeled redbud directly under the rim coil ending. The rim coil ending is blunt with three back stitches and is cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 50-60% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials and techniques the basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67840, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud. At the start of the basket there are elongated random rectangles. The main design is three horizontal bands inside of which there are alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud rectangles. There are random rectangles on the interior and exterior. The weft fag ends are concealed or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with two back stitches and is cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 40-45% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. There is a human hair at the top exterior of the basket, in the top design band and there is a second hair in the middle design band.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67843, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. There is no evidence of use wear; however there are breaks at the rim, probably due to storage or display. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The main design is three horizontal bands of paired alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud, with a break that lines up. There is a single band of unpeeled redbud below the rim. There are a few random rectangles on the exterior and interior. The weft fag ends are concealed or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped with a missing rim coil ending, in some areas the coil foundation is missing, but the wefts are still present. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 50% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67838, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled slightly flared shallow basket bowl, not used but with some debris and dirt on the interior. The basket start is unpeeled redbud, twined. The coil foundation is splints and rods of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud and unpeeled redbud weft designs. The main design three diagonal v shaped quail top not designs and two vertical alternating weft rows of peeled and unpeeled redbud. There are about two random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, with rim ticks. The rim coil ending is slightly tapered, cut, and has eight diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are clipped or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The weft stiches on the exterior are less than 5% split. The weft interior stitches are 35-40% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. There are two human hairs at the side exterior of the basket. Based on the materials and techniques this basket is Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67831, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Low-sided coiled basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design at the base of the basket has two bands with breaks in the same area. This is followed by four equally spaced filler design elements. On the sides of the basket are two sets of three alternating bands of unpeeled and peeled redbud, with breaks that line up with each other. There are random rectangles. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with no back stitches and is possibly cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 30-35% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist.