Object class: Baskets by technique / Collection place: Mendocino County, California / Accession number: Acc.13 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Baskets by technique Collection place Mendocino County, California Accession number Acc.13

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-503, described as Basket for meal. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue, apparently used for sifting meal. The wefts are closely spaced. The start is knotted and twined. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud, and possibly another peeled shoot. The rim is plain wrapped with three herringbone stitches at the ending. The designs are near the upper ⅓ of the basket where there are one coil wide horizontal bands with breaks in them, as well as random rectangles. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and the majority of wefts have a down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are primarily concealed. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The weft stitches are not often split on either face.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-473, described as Basket; coiled. Warp is possibly Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) bark. Truncate-cone coiled basket. Vertical design of diamond patterns. Black and white rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-332, described as Elliptical coiled basket. Crosses and vertical zigzag lines in black; scattered black feather.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-320, described as Feathered truncate-cone coiled basket with broken black band around bottom. Feathers include western blue bird (blue), mallard (black), pileated woodpecker (red), and meadow lark (yellow). White, red, blue glass beads and abalone shell pendants on cotton string. Clam shell beads at rim. Wefts are sedge with black dyed bracken fern broken band near base; probable willow warps.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket tray, accession number 1-746, described as Tray basket, dirty and worn from use. Coiled. Third row from rim done in red; dotted rows at 4 and 5 cm from top; 8 cm from rim is a row part red, then dotted; 2 more red rows at 12 and 13 cm from edge. One tag: "Wailaki att." Two Tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl, with food debris. Tight spiral start, overstitched. The coil foundation is splints only. The wefts are peeled redbud and the design is unpeeled redbud. The weft fag ends are bound under. The moving ends are trimmed with some concealed. The stitches are non-interlocking. There are some split stitches on the work face and approximately 50% split stitches on the back face. The rim is plain wrapped, with a blunt coil ending. The workface is on the exterior, the work direction is to the right. The slant of weft twist is down to the right. The characteristics of the basket do not rule out either a Yuki or Wailaki maker.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-441, described as Bowl basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Two red bands of joined triangles.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-326, described as Pliable plain-twined bowl basket with two red bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-446, described as Shallow bowl basket; plain twined. Warp is willow (Salix), weft is gray pine (Pinus sabiniana). Red pattern is redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Two bands in red.