Collection place: The Americas / Culture or time period: Wailaki / Maker or artist: Susie Jack - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-11987, described as Plate form coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Shallow flaring coiled bowl. There is food debris. The basket start is a tight spiral that has been stitched over. The coil foundation includes peeled redbud rods and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The design includes two horizontal bands of one row of unpeeled redbud followed by one horizontal band of two rows of unpeeled redbud. There are a few random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, and missing in several areas. The rim coil ending is blunt with two back stitches, three are missing. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed or bound under. Less than 30% 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 maker of this basket was half Yuki and half Wailaki. The techniques and shape of the basket resemble Wailaki food bowls.