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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67890, described as Twined, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Bowl, not used. Bottom has three strand twining and plain twining on sides. Where the base meets the sides there are two rows of lattice twining. Weft is conifer root and overlay is beargrass, red dyed Woodwardia, and a small amount of maidenhair fern. Checkered pattern design. Probably Wintu or neighbors.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67845, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. There is no evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The start has three weft rows of unpeeled redbud. The main design is seven horizontal single rows of unpeeled redbud, separated by three bands of peeled redbud, with a break that lines up. There are a few random rectangles. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is blunt with a quick taper formed by five back stitches, it is not cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 5% on the exterior and on the interior 30-35% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials, design and techniques the basket is either from the Yuki or Wailaki. There is a human hair woven into the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67905, described as Checker work and twining, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67897, described as Twined, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67893, described as Twined with openwork, bowl shape. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket with three rows of openwork on the side and two bands of close twining, also on the side. Basket is primarily done in plain twining. The base has a single row of lattice twining enclosing a rod. Above the rod is one row of three strand twining. On the interior of the basket there is a raised dome of three strand twining. Warps are hazel and the wefts are conifer root with overlay of beargrass, red-dyed woodwardia fern, and possibly equisetum root for black. Across each of the three rows of openwork there is a single row of undecorated plain twining ascending diagonally across the openwork to continue the weaving process. These are aligned on the same side of the basket. Whilkut attribution is based on the use of double sided overlay bands combined with bands of single sided overlay. Also, on this basket the single side overlay outlines the double sided overlay bands which is typical of Whilkut weaving. The basket is done in up to the right slant of weft twist typical of Northwest California. Whilkut are known to have used equisetum root for black on some baskets.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67834, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Coiled broad shallow basket bowl, with some use wear and some residue. The start is twined. The warps are three rods. The wefts are peeled redbud as a background and unpeeled redbud designs. The design is five vertical lines of unpeeled redbud. There are random rectangles, in a light color. The rim is plain wrapped with a blunt coil ending, with three overstitches, with the warps clipped. The weft fag ends are bound under and the weft moving ends are concealed. On the exterior 10% of the wefts are split and the interior wefts are over 75% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials, design, and random rectangles this most likely a Yuki basket but Wailaki cannot be ruled out. There is a hair woven into the bottom exterior third of the basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67849, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring shallow basket bowl, not used but with some debris and dirt on the interior. The basket start is a sewn over tight spiral. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud and unpeeled redbud. The main design is two continuous vertical lines that cross the whole basket of peeled redbud, one narrow and one wide. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt, cut, and has two backstitches. The weft fag ends are clipped with some bound under. The weft moving ends are bound under or concealed. The weft stiches on the exterior are less than 5% split. The weft interior stitches are 35-40% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. There is a human hair at the bottom exterior of the basket. Based on the materials and techniques this basket is Yuki or based on the lack of random rectangles possibly a Wailaki basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67898, described as Twined, bowl shape.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-67894, described as Burden basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Three strand twining at base; the rest of basket is plain twined. Hazel warp sticks and conifer root weft. Overlay design is only in beargrass. Design band below rim with two interlocked parallelograms. Then V shaped chains of parallelograms. Undulating sides are common to Southern Humboldt Athabascans. Leather reinforcing at rim is lashed on in typical Lassik style although this type of lashing could be used by neighbors as well.

Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-67906, described as Twined