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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67920, described as Twined, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67905, described as Checker work and twining, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67848, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are rods and splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud. There are a few wefts on the base that are an unknown unpeeled black material. The design on the base is a few areas of unpeeled black material. The main design is alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud in diagonal curvilinear spirals. There are a few random rectangles. The weft fag ends are concealed or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped with half of the rim covered in rim ticks in peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim coil ending is tapered with one back stitch. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 35-40% 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 1-67813, described as Coiled, bowl shape with incurving rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67887, described as Single rod coiling, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67816, described as Coiled, bowl shape with incurving rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67897, described as Twined, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67868, described as Coiled. Bowl shape, with incurving rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67869, described as Coiled. Bowl shape, with incurving rim. Feather decoration.

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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