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Start Over Object class Mush basket bowl Collector Philip Mills Jones
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 Mush basket, accession number 1-747, described as Mush boiling basket, twined 2 bands of overlay single faced type decoration. 3 strand twining at start, 3 cm radius; also the third row from top. Fourth row down lattice twining of peeled shoots. Grimy and worn from use. Two tags " Wailaki" Per Ralph Shanks: Mush boiling basket. Probably crossed warp start, indented. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. There is a reinforcing rod on the exterior of the basket wrapped with another material. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 2 inches, followed by plain twining up to one inch from the rim, followed by a lattice twined rod, followed by a single weft row of three strand twining, followed by two weft rows of plain twining. The rim is trimmed. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are two horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design, there are two to three points on the bottom of the band to every point on the top of the band. The overlay is single sided. The shape of the basket is different from Northwestern California mush boilers, with straighter sides.

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