Object name: Cooking basket / Collection place: Round Valley, Mendocino County, California / Culture or time period: North American native cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-517, described as Fine weave. Ragged edges, quite worn from use and very grimy. Three strand twining 7 cm radius from start of basket. Several tears, one patched. Two tags "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking bowl, used, with no apparent designs. There is a repair at base, patched with splints, the use of splints is typical in Wailaki and Yuki coiled baskets. Crossed warp start, in a non-perpendicular Southern Humboldt Athabaskan style. Warps are a peeled shoot and wefts are conifer root. There are 2.5 inches of wide three strand twining at the base. The rest of the basket is plain twined. The rim is trimmed. The workface is on the exterior. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11964, described as Plate form coiled sifting basket. Tags: "no. Lost Yuki", "# Lost" and "1-11964 Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide flaring coiled bowl, in the shape of a sifting or cooking basket. It has no staining or residue. The start is a spiral start. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled, with another possible redbud that is lighter and browner than other unpeeled redbud. The design includes the start which is unpeeled for 1 1/2 inches, three bands of three horizontal lines with one break in each band at the same point. There are also random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; with the rim coil ending missing about five wefts. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed; the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 30% 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.

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.

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 1-11893, 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 1-12114, described as Very small cylindrical cooking basket. Dirty, but not very worn. White stripes, horizontal. 3 strand twining, 2.5 - 3 cm radius from start. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Basket bowl, possibly for storage, with some debris at the bottom of the basket. Probably crossed warp start. The warp material is a peeled shoot; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is three strand twining for about 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the rim. The rim is trimmed with some slight protrusions from the warp sticks. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. There are six plain horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design. The overlay is double sided.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-737, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp and weft are Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud bark.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12099, described as Cylindrical twined cooking basket. Very grimy from use. Overlay design, 2-faced. Lower portion: rectangles "hanging" by line extending from upper right hand corner with smaller rectangle and triangle extending diagonally below from lower left corner. Upper portion: small "hanging" rectangles with a line extended at right angles from lower left hand corner to a dotted line below. 3-strand twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs". Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mush/serving basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, with some warps exposed from under the wrapping material. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is one inch of three strand twining, followed by an 1 1/4 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by two rows of three strand twining, followed by 3 1/2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by 1/2 inch of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim, which has one row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with about half of the warp sticks protruding above the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11961, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide- mouthed coiled basket bowl, the same shape and size as a typical Yuki cooking bowl. It has food residue in it but no evidence of cooking, it could have been used as a sifter. The basket has a pinhole start. The coil foundation is mixed rods and splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is six horizontal bands with varying widths, a few with open and closed rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is broken, but several herringbone stitches are left. The weft fag ends are a mixture of clipped and concealed. The weft moving ends are concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has up to 80% split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-513, described as Basket. Two tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, in the shape of a Yuki cooking pot, with wear in the interior and residue from being cooked in. The basket has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation is one rod and splints of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design at the base includes two concentric horizontal bands with one break in each that lines up. The design on the sides of the basket is three sets of two parallel horizontal bands, with four downward steps. There are random rectangles, some forming small designs. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is blunt with four diagonal back-stitches. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior has below 5% split stitches. The interior of the basket has below 50% split stitches. The basket has an exterior work-face with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.