Collection place: Northern California / Collector: Samuel A. Barrett / Culture or time period: North Central California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-10317, described as Small, discoidal.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-9976, described as Small, irregularly shaped stone for cracking acorns.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-10008, described as Small discoidal stone. Used in cracking acorns.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-9906, described as Discoidal stone.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn cracker, accession number 1-10010, described as Small discoidal granite stone. Used in cracking acorns.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal, accession number 1-2890, described as Ground, ready to leach.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal, accession number 1-12207, described as Food sample; acorn meal

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal, accession number 1-9929, described as Specimen, ethnobotanical; acorn meal (ready for leaching), 3 bottles.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-11959, described as Globose coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose basket bowl. There are no abrasions or residue. The basket has a tight spiral coiled start with small hole in center, not pinhole start however. The starts wefts are unpeeled redbud. The coil foundation is three rod peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is eleven horizontal one coil row wide bands of redbud. There are a few small random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is slightly tapered with five diagonal back stitches. The weft fag ends are concealed, with some clipped or tucked. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed with some tucked. The exterior of the basket has a few split stiches; the interior has more than 50% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. There is one hair woven into the basket. Note with basket in Larry Dawson's handwriting "Closure of lines line = ~ [about] 40A coil ending no dau marks". Per Ralph Shanks Dawson was looking for dau marks in this basket.