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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-9952, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is possibly Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Pattern is mud-dyed Brake fern (Pteris quilina). 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches. Decoration: slightly oblique, irregular black bands. Design material is bracken fern root. Basket is very worn. It has been extensively repaired at base, but there are many breaks both near the base and at the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-10123, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is possibly Maple (Acer macrophyllum). Pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Single-rod coiling with interlocking stitches; wide-mouthed with sloping sides. Decoration: 2 double rows of horizontally parallel black bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11878, described as Small flaring coiled basket. Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue and a few burns. The basket is in the shape of an under-sized Yuki cooking basket. Tight spiral start. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim is plain wrapped with a blunt ending with one back stitch. The designs are one coil wide horizontal broken lines. 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 tucked. The weft stitches are often split.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-322, described as Plain-twined cooking basket, 4 red bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11946, described as Very old hemispherical basket. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket cooking pot/ parcher. The basket has food residue, burns and the wefts are worn away at the base. The basket start is probably twined. The coil foundation is rod and splints. The background wefts are peeled redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is horizontal bands, one to two coils wide, some with breaks. The basket has many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is missing, two back stitches remain. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed, with a few bound under. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has many 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 1-10066, described as Cooking basket; coiled. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Decoration: horizontal band of geometrical designs in redbud. 3-rod coiling with interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-2600, described as Unfinished cooking basket; twined bamtush weave. Warp is willow (Salix), weft is possibly gray pine (Pinus sabiniana). Red pattern is redbud (Cercis occidentalis).

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-9970, described as Cooking basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud. Flat. Decoration: brown rectangular and triangular forms encircling lower portions of basket. 3-rod coiling, with interlocking stitches.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-12005, described as Old flaring coiled basket. Well made for a Yuki 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 coiled oval start. The basket has a three rod coil foundation. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in sedge. The design includes four sets of two intersecting diagonal bands with flags on either side, two sets of bands go to the rim, and two sets of bands meet halfway up the basket. There are filler designs at the rim between the main designs. The rim is plain wrapped. The primary design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending is decoratively backstitched for an inch and a half. The rim has a larger diameter coil than the rest of the basket. The weft fag ends are bound under, concealed and 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. The basket has both Yuki and Huchnom aspects. The Huchnom used sedge more commonly than the Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11967, described as Very old plate form parching basket with bottom mended. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad flaring basket, used as a parcher and possibly as a cooking pot, with residue from food, wefts worn down to the foundation rods, and the interior is blackened with use. The basket has a coiled start, and is difficult to see. The coil foundation is rods and splints of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud, with a break that lines up. There are some random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped with some concealed. The weft moving ends are difficult to see, some are concealed. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has over 50% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.