Object class: Coiled weaving / Culture or time period: North Central California tribes - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-11959, described as Globose coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose basket bowl. There are no abrasions or residue. The basket has a tight spiral coiled start with small hole in center, not pinhole start however. The starts wefts are unpeeled redbud. The coil foundation is three rod peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is eleven horizontal one coil row wide bands of redbud. There are a few small random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is slightly tapered with five diagonal back stitches. The weft fag ends are concealed, with some clipped or tucked. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed with some tucked. The exterior of the basket has a few split stiches; the interior has more than 50% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. There is one hair woven into the basket. Note with basket in Larry Dawson's handwriting "Closure of lines line = ~ [about] 40A coil ending no dau marks". Per Ralph Shanks Dawson was looking for dau marks in this basket.

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 Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-11960, described as Globose coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose basket bowl. There are no abrasions or residue. The basket has a tight spiral coiled start with indentation and a small hole in the center, but not pinhole start however. The start's wefts have three rows of unpeeled redbud. The coil foundation is three rod peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is diagonal lines with flags off the top and bottom of the lines, quail designs per informant. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior of the basket has about 15% split stiches; the interior has over 90% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and various slant of weft twist. Based on the lack of random rectangles and Lizzie Chicken's background of being half-Yuki half-Wailaki this basket was woven in the style of Wailaki baskets.

Hearst Museum object titled Acorn meal basket, accession number 1-12038, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring and rounded coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue. The wefts are closely spaced. The start is stitched over. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim is plain wrapped with an inch long herringbone ending. The designs are two 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 with some bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The weft stitches are often split on the backface.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71225, described as Coiled, with wide mouth and sloping sides. Decoration: Bracken fern root, diagonal black bands crossing so as to form open diamonds; small black rectangles in diamond centers. Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches, herringbone border stitch at rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-230653, described as Oval flaring shape, coiled, 1-rod foundation. Ascending diagonal designs of sets of long pointed triangles in black. Sedge root and bulrush root sewing materials.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-71433, described as Coiled on bundle foundation, with interlocking stitches and herringbone border stitch; tray-shaped. Decoration: crossing diagonal lines of black "flying geese" on upper portion of tray. Made of split shoots and bracken fern root.

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-235177, described as Coiled basket. Outside covered with iridescent green mallard feathers broken up by white feathers into diamond design. Quail topknots around rim. Wefts are sedge root.