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Start Over Donor Henry B. Hickey Jr. Culture or time period Huchnom
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67846, 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 a tight coiled spiral. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots. The wefts are sedge root background and unpeeled redbud, and few wefts of dyed bracken fern. The main design is three vertical columns of alternating sedge and redbud. The last weft row of redbud has four to six weft stitches of black dyed bracken fern. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with three diagonal backstitches. The wefts are slightly widely spaced. The weft fag ends are clipped with some bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The weft stitches 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. Based on the materials and techniques including the use of sedge and the rightward work direction this basket is probably Huchnom see page 117-118 of Indian Baskets of Central California by Ralph Shanks.

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