Object class: Twined weaving / Media available: legacy documentation / Maker or artist: Lizzie Sam - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12024, described as Small open hemispherical basket said to have been used for leaching buckeyes. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Open twined buckeye leaching basket. Used with wear. The start is a crossed warped twined start. The warp foundation is peeled shoots. The wefts are of an uncertain material, with two possible bands of unpeeled redbud designs. The basket is plain twined. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Surviving buckeye leaching baskets are very rare.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12028, described as Very small burden basket, roughly made but said to be of old Yuki Type. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "1203". Per Ralph Shanks: Close twined conical gathering basket. Has food residue and use wear. The start is concealed under a leather cap at the base of the basket. The warp foundation is a peeled shoot. The weft materials appear to be conifer root with a design of unpeeled redbud in overlay. The rim has unpeeled redbud and leather lashing holding a reinforcing rod to the interior of the rim. A leather strap is secured on the side with a cloth knot on the interior. The basket is plain twined. The decoration is a single band of unpeeled redbud done in single sided overlay on the exterior of the basket. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Openwork basket, accession number 1-12020, described as Openwork twined basket with hoop bound around its border. "It is old fashioned Yuki way to put hoop around border." Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined shallow basket. Used, with wear. The start is a cross-warped twined start. The warp foundation is primarily unpeeled shoot rods. The background wefts are unknown and the design wefts are unpeeled redbud. The designs are two horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. A reinforcing rod is twined on to the exterior of the basket. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12021, described as Small and new. Per Ralph Shanks. Tag says "Yuki". Seed beater basket, plain-twined. Looks traditional, probably not made for sale. Basket has a cross-warp starting knot. The handle and bowl are made of 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 to a limited degree with cordage. There are no observed hairs and the attribution is a Yuki seed beater. The basket has designs made of unpeeled rebbud. There is a circular design at the starting not and a circular band about halfway through the bowl.