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Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-11665, described as Flat sifting basket. Grimy from use. Plain twined. White overlay floated on back. 2 rows in 2 places are lattice twined rods (on back).
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-11890, described as Old hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, probably used for sifting or serving. The basket has food debris inside it. The start is coiled. The basket has a single rod coil foundation with splints. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design is three diagonal zigzags. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is blunt with eight back stitches. The weft fag ends are clipped and bound under. The moving ends are concealed with a few clipped. A little over half of the stitches are split on the back face. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right, and the slant of weft twist is primarily down to the right.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-13444, described as Basket for sifting manzanita flour (cuk unna). Materials are willow, redbud wood and redbud bark.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-211546, described as Large shallow sifting basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-1492, described as Sifting basket
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-12010, described as Small old plate form sifting basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifting basket, with residue. Tight spiral coiled start. Three rod foundation of peeled shoots. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is alternating horizontal bands of peeled and unpeeled redbud. There are no random rectangles. The rim is much damaged, but was wrapped. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are obscured by residue. There are about 50% split stitches on the interior and exterior.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-10169, described as Sifter basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Coiled on a bundle foundation, with spaced non-interlocking stitches, circular in shape. Four black cross-shaped designs.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-12052, described as Small plate form sifting basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, used for sifting. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is mixed three rod and splint. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. There are 1 1/2 inches of wefts at the start that appears to be sedge or some other material. The design is two pairs of vertical triangle like shapes on opposite sides of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing, and was cut. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under and some are trimmed. The moving ends are primarily concealed and some are clipped. About half of the stitches are split on the back face, and are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right, and the slant of weft twist is primarily down to the right.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-3985, described as Round flat sifting basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-27891, described as Basketry tray. Overlay twined, black and brown design. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes". Second Tag "NW". Third tag "NW Calif". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, in the shape of a flour/ sifting tray, probably not used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably hazel or possibly willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia, and maidenhair fern. At the starting knot there are 1.5 inches of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until 1 inch below the rim, where there are 2 weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues to the rim. The design at the base has a circle of triangles followed by a horizontal band that has triangles in positive and negative, followed by another band of downward pointing triangles, at the rim there are seven triangles. The basket has an interior workface with a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is primarily on the inside. The rim is trimmed. There are hairs woven into the basket.

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