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Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-12043, described as Old hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, probably used for sifting. The basket has food debris inside it. The start is a tight spiral coil start. The basket has a single rod coil foundation with splints. The wefts are of uncertain material (s), white/tan with dark brown designs. The design is four stepped bars with rectangles on the inside. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is slightly tapered, with six back stitches. The weft fag ends are bound under and trimmed. The moving ends are concealed and some are trimmed. Almost all of the stitches are split on the back face. 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-211546, described as Large shallow sifting basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-1492, described as Sifting basket
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-11672, described as Sifting tray basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Grimy from use. About one quarter of rim is broken off to outer lattice - twined rows. Plain twined. White overlay floated on back. 2 rows of lattice twined rods near edge and center (rods on back).
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-12010, described as Small old plate form sifting basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifting basket, with residue. Tight spiral coiled start. Three rod foundation of peeled shoots. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is alternating horizontal bands of peeled and unpeeled redbud. There are no random rectangles. The rim is much damaged, but was wrapped. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are obscured by residue. There are about 50% split stitches on the interior and exterior.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-10169, described as Sifter basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Coiled on a bundle foundation, with spaced non-interlocking stitches, circular in shape. Four black cross-shaped designs.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-1588, described as Sifting basket. Rim coming apart. Used. Plain twined. 3 strand at start and two rows at rim. White overlay floated on back. Parallelograms radiate from center.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-61749, described as Twined basketry oval mat. Tag "Klamath R. Tribes Att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket tray, perhaps a flour/ sifting tray or lid. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is possibly hazel or willow. The background weft is conifer root. The weft overlay is beargrass, maidenhair fern, and red-dyed woodwardia. At the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining until rim. The design includes a band of parallelograms at the start, followed by a circle surrounded by alternating triangles, followed by five elements made up of two hourglasses and one triangle, with one band of maidenhair fern below the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is single sided. The rim is trimmed. The basket may have been inverted after manufacture. There are hairs woven into the basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-12052, described as Small plate form sifting basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, used for sifting. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is mixed three rod and splint. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. There are 1 1/2 inches of wefts at the start that appears to be sedge or some other material. The design is two pairs of vertical triangle like shapes on opposite sides of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing, and was cut. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under and some are trimmed. The moving ends are primarily concealed and some are clipped. About half 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.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-3985, described as Round flat sifting basket.

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