Object name: Sifting tray / Culture or time period: California tribes / Maker or artist: Susie Jack - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-11986, described as Small very old flaring coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, probably used for sifting and parching. The basket has some burns on the interior as well as food debris. There is a twined repair near the rim. The basket has a coiled start. The basket has a 3 rod coil foundation. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design is two horizontal bands. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are bound under and clipped. The moving ends are difficult to see, some are concealed. Most of the stitches are split on the back face and are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right, and the slant of weft twist is primarily down to the right.