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Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-11978, described as Seed beater Per Ralph Shanks and Christa Ogier. Tag says "Yuki". Seed beater basket, plain-twined, used, but with no residue apparent. Looks traditional, probably not made for sale. Basket has a cross-warp starting knot. The handle and bowl are made of peeled and unpeeled redbud shoots. Rim is open-wrapped with some warps extending beyond the rim of the bowl. Handle is attached to the bowl by extending some of the warps into the center of the bowl and then bending them back into the handle. Some of the handle warps have been integrated into the bowl. Slant of weft twist is up and to the right with an exterior work face, work direction is uncertain. The handle is wrapped with redbud. There are no observed hairs and the attribution is a Yuki seed beater. There is no design apparent. Bowl is shallower and broader than others in the collection, same diameter as 1-11994.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10397, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina).

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-2530, described as Tags: 2 tags "Lassik" Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: Object is a twined seed beater (not seed knocker). Very used, with a lot of food materials adhering. Comprised of a disk and a handle that were likely made separately. Disk has a cross warp starting knot that extends out with plain twining to the rim. The rim of the disk is trimmed with a number of warp sticks extending 1/16 of an inch past the rim. Basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. Work face is exterior, and work direction is rightward. The handle is twined and consists of a bundle of rods which are doubled over and bent through the disk at various locations starting in the center and extending up to 4 weft rows below the rim. The longest rods are, for the most part, unpeeled and are found in the middle of the handle and some of the the shortest make up the warp of the handle. A few of the shorter rods are incorporated into the center of the handle. The twining around the handle proceeds to the right from 2 weft rows of the disk's rim. Where the handle meets the rim there are 3 stitches around the top 2 weft rows of the rim and the weft row that is entering the handle. The 2 shoots that wrap around the handle are not twined for one full rotation around the handle then they transition to 5 rows of plain twining spaced about 1 1/4 inches. There are 3 closely spaced weft rows of plain twining at the top of the handle. The handle is flared starting approximately 1 inch from the rim, the rim of the handle is trimmed. About 7 rods at the center of the handle extend above the rim for about 1/2 inch. Seed knocker (Beltcí)

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-19818, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Grape (Vitus californica) and string.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-4103, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Openwork, plain twined, scoop shaped. With handle. Strong rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-7396, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix). Made of whole shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-3982, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Handled scoop.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-401, described as Seed beater. Rough, plain, twined bowl with string-wound handle, of willow. Whole willow shoots, peeled and unpeeled. Somewhat worn. The bowl of the beater is similar to those made by Little Lake Pomo.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-233797, described as Twined openwork, cloth wrapped handle.