Object name: Cooking basket / Culture or time period: Central California Tribes / Accession number: Acc.291 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12041, described as Deep hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket cooking bowl. Some cooking stone wear and food residue is in the bottom interior. The basket has a tight spiral start with a stitch over it. The coil foundation is made up of three peeled shoot rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud designs. The design is diagonal intersecting bands of rectangles. Three are no random rectangles. The design continues to the rim, which is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is tapered and has three diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are clipped, concealed, and bound under. The moving ends are concealed. The wefts are non-interlocking, 40% of the wefts are split on the interior and 20% are split on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The work direction is to the right with a down to the right slant of weft twist. The shape of the basket is not Yuki cooking basket shaped and there are no random rectangles, however Samuel Barrett's informants said the basket was Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12044, described as Large old hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad coiled bowl, in the shape of cooking basket. There is food debris and some burns on the interior. The basket has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation includes peeled shoot rod and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The design includes three paired stepped up and down diagonal lines, two of which intersect three times. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The primary design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending is missing. The rim has a larger diameter coil than the rest of the basket. The weft fag ends are concealed with some clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed. Less than 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 Cooking basket, accession number 1-11879, described as Large flaring coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket Yuki cooking bowl, with residue from food and wear from cooking. The bottom 2/3rds of the exterior of the basket are blackened. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is two rods and splints of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design on the basket is three horizontal bands that drop down and go up at the same areas. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, with rim ticks. The coil ending is cut off, with about three weft stiches missing. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped or concealed. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior has below 10% split stiches. The interior of the basket has over 50% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The lack of random rectangles suggests some Wailaki influnce.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11893, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled possible cooking basket. The basket has food debris. The basket start is twined. The warps are rods. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud as well as many random unpeeled redbud rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is tapered with seven back stiches. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under or concealed and the moving ends are concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11961, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide- mouthed coiled basket bowl, the same shape and size as a typical Yuki cooking bowl. It has food residue in it but no evidence of cooking, it could have been used as a sifter. The basket has a pinhole start. The coil foundation is mixed rods and splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is six horizontal bands with varying widths, a few with open and closed rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is broken, but several herringbone stitches are left. The weft fag ends are a mixture of clipped and concealed. The weft moving ends are concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has up to 80% split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11964, described as Plate form coiled sifting basket. Tags: "no. Lost Yuki", "# Lost" and "1-11964 Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide flaring coiled bowl, in the shape of a sifting or cooking basket. It has no staining or residue. The start is a spiral start. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled, with another possible redbud that is lighter and browner than other unpeeled redbud. The design includes the start which is unpeeled for 1 1/2 inches, three bands of three horizontal lines with one break in each band at the same point. There are also random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; with the rim coil ending missing about five wefts. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed; the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 30% 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 Cooking basket, accession number 1-12005, described as Old flaring coiled basket. Well made for a Yuki basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad coiled bowl, in the shape of cooking basket. There is food debris and some burns on the interior. The basket has a coiled oval start. The basket has a three rod coil foundation. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in sedge. The design includes four sets of two intersecting diagonal bands with flags on either side, two sets of bands go to the rim, and two sets of bands meet halfway up the basket. There are filler designs at the rim between the main designs. The rim is plain wrapped. The primary design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending is decoratively backstitched for an inch and a half. The rim has a larger diameter coil than the rest of the basket. The weft fag ends are bound under, concealed and clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed. Less than 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. The basket has both Yuki and Huchnom aspects. The Huchnom used sedge more commonly than the Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12053, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Two tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, used for parching, but of similar shape as a Yuki cooking basket. The basket has burns on the interior as well as food debris. The basket has a twined start, which has been repaired. The basket has a rod and splint foundation. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design is four-five horizontal stepped bands. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are both tucked and clipped. The moving ends are difficult to see, some are concealed. Most of the stitches are not 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 Cooking basket, accession number 1-12009, described as Very old large hemispherical basket. Tags "Yuki" second tag "40-A". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, in the shape of an acorn mush cooking basket. It has extensive staining, burns, and residue. There are some insect holes. The start is twined. The coil foundation is splints with unpeeled redbud rods. The weft material is redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design includes the base which is unpeeled redbud followed by diagonally stacked peeled and unpeeled redbud parallelograms all the way to the rim. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; with the rim coil ending missing, there are about six stitches missing. The rim is glued in several places, as well as deliberately cut. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed; the weft moving ends are concealed. 30% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 20% 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 Cooking basket, accession number 1-11878, described as Small flaring coiled basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue and a few burns. The basket is in the shape of an under-sized Yuki cooking basket. Tight spiral start. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim is plain wrapped with a blunt ending with one back stitch. The designs are one coil wide horizontal broken lines. 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 tucked. The weft stitches are often split.