Object class: Twined weaving / Collection place: Round Valley, Mendocino County, California / Culture or time period: American cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Twined weaving Collection place Round Valley, Mendocino County, California Culture or time period American cultures

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 Basket, accession number 1-12024, described as Small open hemispherical basket said to have been used for leaching buckeyes. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Open twined buckeye leaching basket. Used with wear. The start is a crossed warped twined start. The warp foundation is peeled shoots. The wefts are of an uncertain material, with two possible bands of unpeeled redbud designs. The basket is plain twined. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Surviving buckeye leaching baskets are very rare.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27901, described as Twined, shallow, with brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-27899, described as Squat, globose. Twined. Brown design.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11990, described as Hemispherical twined basket, said to have been used in leaching buckeyes. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket, dome shaped. The catalog card mentions both use as leaching basket and as a hat. The warps are probably willow. There are a few weft rows of possible split unpeeled redbud, as well as some material like willow roots. The basket looks like it might of had a handle, there are two broken warps on the interior that the handle would have attached to. The basket has a crossed warp start with two wefts in an x over it. The basket is three strand twined. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket was collected from a Pit River woman, but does not appear to be from that area. The start is unusual with a design element present that is not found in Yuki twined baskets. The materials and techniques are not similar to Yuki baskets. The start is similar to some Wailaki openwork baskets, but the materials and three strand twining are not present in the Wailaki baskets in the Hearst Museum collections.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12163, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki globular hanging(?) basket with cross warp start that has 4 warp rows on each side, stacked perpendicularly and wrapped diagonally in one direction. The warp and weft sticks are peeled shoots, basket is plain twined over 2 to 4 warp rows. At the rim there are 3 more closely spaced rows of plain twining. Warps are closely trimmed. A 2-ply piece of twine is tied around the weft rows of the rim, possibly intended to hang the basket. Uneven surface to the basket. Work direction is rightward, slant of weft twist is up and to the right. On interior of basket there are numerous warp sticks protruding. The basket appears to have been used. Globose openwork basket. In good condition. Twill twining; 3 rows of close twining at rim; a 2-ply fiber string (aboriginal?) tied onto rim as a handle.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11979, described as Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11901, described as Ill shapen newly made openwork basket. This form is very unusual, but the method of twining with split elements is typical of the Yuki. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Open twined buckeye leaching basket. Not used. The start is a crossed warped twined start, partially woven over The warp foundation is paired unpeeled redbud shoots. The wefts are of unpeeled redbud. The basket is plain twined. The rim is evenly clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Surviving buckeye leaching baskets are very rare.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12118, described as Open plate form basket. Very fragile, quite worn, breaks in several places. Plain weave, close at start, then open weave (3 rows at the top more closely woven than most of basket). Tag: "1196". Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the first inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

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