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Start Over Object class Cooking baskets Collector Samuel A. Barrett
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12688, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root. Small, straight, flat-bottomed basket (maksha). Plain-twined tule.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10099, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Flaring, 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: dark brown horizontal zigzag design.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10476, described as Cooking basket; warp and weft are Willow (Salix). White above and light brown below, design of black diagonal. Old and very worn.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10081, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is possibly Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is red. 3-rod coiling with intelocking stitches (many are split on interior face).
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 1-12566, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is twisted Tule skin (Schoenoplectus acutus), weft is twisted Tule and Cattail (Typha latifolia). Brown pattern is Tule root.
Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10082, described as Coiled; flaring sides. Decoration: horizontal doubled zigzag of black "flying geese" beneath rim and, further down, band of crossing diagonal zigzags also composed of black "flying geese." Warp material: Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens). Woof material: sedge (Carex sp.). Design material is brackenfern root (Pteris quilina). Coiled on bundle foundation with non-interlocking stitches.
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 1-10334, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. 3-Rod coiling with interlocking stitches; made with split shoots of unpeeled redbud; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: triangles and banded designs in red.
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.

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