Object name: Mortar basket / Object class: Coiled weaving / Donor: Samuel A. Barrett - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11968, described as Old mortar hopper basket. Tag "Yuki". Tag stapled to basket "1132" Per Ralph Shanks: Mortar hopper basket, used, with wear. The start is missing. The warps are a peeled shoot, probably dogwood. The weft appears to conifer root, although the exterior of the basket is unusually dark, probably dyed. The first three to four rows are coiled, with peeled and unpeeled redbud wefts; there is leather at the first row lashed on. The coil rows are possibly a repair or add on. The coils are followed by three rows of three strand twining, followed by a half inch of plain twining, followed by an exterior reinforcing rod lashed on with leather, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by two inches of plain twining, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining separated by two weft rows of plain twining. Plain twining continues to the rim, the last weft row is three strand twining. The warps are clipped at the rim. The rim reinforcing rod is attached to the interior through wrapping of probably grapevine, alternating dark and light every four to seven inches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11896, described as Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). Willow hoop (Salix) bound with grape (Vitus californica). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11886, described as Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). Willow hoop (Salix) bound with grape (Vitus californica), lowest rounds coated with Redbud bark.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-12046, described as Very old large hemispherical basket with crossing pattern of triangles. Bottom gone. Two tags "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl, formerly used for cooking acorn soup but repurposed into mortar hopper after base was lost. Food residue and wear marks are present on the interior. The start is missing. The coil foundation is three peeled shoot rods. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is five elements made up of diagonal stacks of upward and downward pointing triangles. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped, and the rim ending is missing. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are primarily concealed. There are very few split wefts on the exterior and interior. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with down to the right slant of weft twist. Purposefully made Yuki mortar hoppers are twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-12120, described as Mortar basket with Yuki mending at bottom. Grimy from use. Twined basket has been repaired by rude coiling and sewing, at lower hoop and below. Parallel horizontal bands of white 2-faced overlay; top one zig-zagging parallelograms; below, a zig-zag design with zig-zag edges. A hoop has been stitched to the inside of the rim, re-sewn in one spot; one row of 3-strand twining shows just below the hoop. Tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mortar hopper basket with coiled repairs at base, used. For the twining: The warps are a peeled shoot. The wefts are conifer root with bear grass overlay designs. The twining is all plain twining except directly below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining followed by two rows of diagonal twining, mostly concealed under the rim wrapping. There is a reinforcing rod attached at the rim with wrapping of peeled and unpeeled shoot. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and an up to the right of weft twist. The weft overlay is primarily on the exterior, with irregular overlay on the interior. The basket undulates. For the coiling at the base: There is a reinforcing rod lattice twined at the uppermost two coils, where the twining starts. The coils are made up first of splints and later on rods. The weft materials are primarily peeled redbud. The stitches are non-interlocking; with no split stitches on the workface, with a few split stitches on the back face. The workface is on the exterior, and the work direction is to the right, with a down to the right slant of weft twist.