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Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-729, described as Burden basket, in good condition. Hoop lashed to rim with buckskin, broken in 2 places. Twined, with knotted strap. White two-faced overlay designs; dotted stripe just below rim; then diamond outlines connected in horizontal band. Lowest design is a dotted stripe with zig-zag horizontal line beneath. The point, the very start of basket, begins with rawhide weft, over the stick warp. Three-strand twining. 2 tags both say 'Wailaki' Per Ralph Shanks: Classic Wailaki burden basket, used, made out of conifer root weft, possibly pine root with bear grass overlay. Overlay is irregular sided, not two-faced as indicated above. Peeled shoots used for warp sticks. Starting knot is common for the Wilaki, with wefts made of rawhide or buckskin. Beginning at starting knot there are alternating bands of 3 strand and plain twining weft rows for 3.5 inches, followed by plain twining until 1 weft row below rim. The uppermost weft row is 3 strand twining. Trimmed rim finish with the vast majority of warp sticks rising as much as .25 inches above the rim. At the rim a reinforcing rod is lashed to the basket with buckskin using the typical wailaki technique, the rod is broken in 2 places. There is a carrying strap attached to the rim and the reinforcing rod. The weft stitches are up and to the right and the work direction is up and to the right with an exterior work face. Some undulation is present.
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-728, described as Burden basket. Dusty, in good condition. White 2-faced overlay, narrow stripes and horizontal zigzag band nearest top. Narrow zigzag bands in large v-shaped and zigzag patterns. 2 parallel single line zigzag design nearest bottom. Hoop lashed inside basket edge with buckskin strap about 76 cm long. 2 small hoops lattice woven to inside near the bottom. Tip of the basket was begun with 1 buckskin weft. Plain twining, except in the bottom 8.5 cm which is done in 3-strand twining. Three tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined burden basket, used. . Crossed warp starting knot. The basket has peeled shoot warps with beargrass overlay. There are several patches in different materials including redbud, cotton string, and leather. A rod is lashed on with leather on the interior of the rim. A 27 inch long leather strap is on one side of the rim and is attached 1/2 inch below the rim. There is one rod that is lattice twined for two rows on to the interior bottom of the basket. From the bottom of the basket above the leather there is three strand twining for 4 inches, followed by plain twining for the rest of the basket. The rim is trimmed. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket undulates.
Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-732, described as Mortar basket; worn around the bottom edge from pestle action, dirty from use. Warps curve up towards the right. A heavy loop is sewn securely on to form the rim inside. 3- strand twining occurs in a strip 2.5 cm below outside hoop and 2 rows just above it. Area from lowest 3-strand twining to bottom is twilled twining. Tags: Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mortar hopper basket with flaring sides, oblong, and low sided, used. The start is missing. The diameter of the hole is 5 inches. The warps are peeled shoots. The wefts are conifer root and the rim wrapping is a peeled shoot. The basket starts with an inch of diagonal twining, followed by four weft rows of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining, followed by one weft row of lattice twining over one rod, followed by two weft rows of three strand twining, followed by 1 inch of plain twining, followed by a row of three strand twining, followed by two rows of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by 3 inches of plain twining, followed by one weft row three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining, followed by one weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining, followed by open work warps, followed by three rows of plain twining. The rim is wrapped with a reinforcing rod. There is no overlay design. The basket does not undulate. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This basket does not resemble any known Wailaki mortar hoppers and is probably a Yuki made basket traded to the Wailaki.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-730, described as Scoop basket, dirty from use; first row of twining on handle has slipped of the warp sticks. Twined openwork, mostly plain. 3 rows at outer edge more tightly twined. Handle is a bundle of doubled-over sticks inserted through holes; outside ones are warps for twining. Three tags "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The disk is plain twined, widely spaced. The handle is attached to the scoop through a few of the largest rods going through the scoop near its center and then bending back to the handle. These rods in the handle are surrounded by rods that form an exterior cage of warps with wefts that are plain twined, in six weft rows. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The warps are trimmed at the scoop rim and handle.

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