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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67841, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints, with the base in all splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud designs at the upper 1/4 and the lower 3/4 design is an unknown unpeeled material and the background is an unknown peeled material. At the start of the basket is a band of half unpeeled redbud and half unknown unpeeled material. The main design is diagonal stepped spirals. There are no clear random rectangles. The weft fag ends are clipped or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped with a few rim ticks in peeled and unpeeled redbud directly under the rim coil ending. The rim coil ending is blunt with three back stitches and is cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 50-60% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials and techniques the basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-10542, described as Bowl basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Red pattern is Redbud.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-722, described as Coiled; squat, globular shape. Design in red; first couple of rows at start are red. Tag: "Wailaki". Loose tag "att". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Twined start. Peeled shoot rod foundation. Redbud wefts both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps with rectangles and triangles on the tops and bases of the steps. There are random rectangles. The rim is wrapped, with slightly tapered ending; the last inch of wefts is backstitched. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and primarily down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped with some concealed; the moving ends are primarily concealed with some clipped. There are split and unsplit stitches on the interior. The basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12022, described as Hemispherical coiled basket with open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl, appears to be a food serving bowl. Used, with wear and food residue. The start is a coil start. The coil foundation is rod and splint redbud shoots. The wefts are interior peeled redbud. The rim is plain wrapped, with a tapered coil ending with six diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends and the weft moving ends are bound under. The wefts are split infrequently on the exterior, on the interior up to half are split. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-9576, described as Small twined basket. Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki small, globular, close-twined bowl basket, possibly used (debris on the exterior surface of the bottom). Cross-warp start, followed by ⅓ inch of 3 strand twining, followed by plain twining to the rim. An inch from the start there is 1 inch of alternating single weft row bands of bear grass overlay and undecorated conifer root, followed by the primary overlay area that has a background of bear grass and two decorative overlay bands of fern stems (possibly maidenhair fern) the overlay is placed over top of wefts of conifer root and warps of hazel. The rim was closely trimmed however a lot of the last weft row is missing, exposing warp sticks. The overlay is irregular double-sided overlay. Mild indentation at bottom of basket, work direction is rightward, mild undulations to the surface of the basket, overlayed portion of the basket is quite stiff. Starting knot is over-stitched in a manner different from that typically found in NW California. The alternating bands of bear grass and conifer are also not typical. no maker's hairs were found. Small, twined. In good condition. Mainly overlay, 2-faced. White background with reddish-purple designs; white stripe just below rim. Upper design: dark and light triangles form a band of larger triangles. Lower design: a two-step design of 2 equidistant dark lines is repeated horizontally. On the bottom are alternating rows of white and brown, to within 3 cm of the start of basket. 3-strand twining 2 cm radius out from start.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-242530, described as Coiled bowl-shaped basket with 3 large zigzag designs in reddish brown. Tag: "Yuki att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl, not used. The basket start is twined. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots. The background wefts are peeled redbud and the designs are in unpeeled redbud. The main design has three vertical elements of paired zigzags. There is a band of unpeeled redbud at the start. There are a few random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with two diagonal backstiches. There is some unpeeled redbud on rim. The weft fag ends are clipped. The weft moving ends are concealed, with some bound under. The weft stiches on the exterior are less than 5% split. The weft interior stitches are 35-40% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the material and techniques this could be a Yuki or Wailaki basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-255006, described as Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 1 tag "Wailacke or Wintum (att)" twined bowl basket with irregular double-sided overlay. Starting knot is missing and it appears that the last coil row is missing as well. Basket is mildly irregularly shaped. The materials are conifer root weft and an overlay solely of bear grass. Warp is peeled shoots. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist with a rightward work direction. The bottom of the basket is encrusted with food debris. Rim is trimmed. The basket appears more likely to be Wailaki rather than Wintun because of the irregularness of the double-sided overlay. Design consists of narrow horizontal bands, one of which is zigzags and two consist of irregular patterns, and then 4 bands are horizontal single weft row bands. Bowl shaped. Twined with hazel shoot warp and pine root weft, overlay of Xerophyllum tenax in geometric pattern. Bottom broken out and missing, top edge broken.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-67845, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. There is no evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The start has three weft rows of unpeeled redbud. The main design is seven horizontal single rows of unpeeled redbud, separated by three bands of peeled redbud, with a break that lines up. There are a few random rectangles. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is blunt with a quick taper formed by five back stitches, it is not cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 5% on the exterior and on the interior 30-35% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials, design and techniques the basket is either from the Yuki or Wailaki. There is a human hair woven into the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12199, described as Twined rush basket. Dirty from use, but not very worn, most of basket overlaid with white elements, two-faced. Top portion of design is a row of triangles; middle, two 3-strand twined rows with plain twined and overlaid dotted lines in between (3 - 4 cm from top); lower part of design is inverted triangles, not a reflection of the top triangles. More 3-strand twining, 2.5 cm radius from start, and 3 rows beginning 8 cm from the start. Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined basket mush/serving bowl, used. Probably crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot. 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 2 inches of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, followed by four rows of plain twining, followed by one row of three strand twining, after which there is one inch of plain twining. The rim is trimmed with some warp sticks protruding. 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 two horizontal bands of beargrass overlay design with offset triangular forms. The overlay is double sided, with the main design on the exterior. The basket is described as "from people way up in Humboldt" which is outside of Wailaki territory. Several characteristics of this basket are similar to those of the Nongatl including: the starting knot, the semi-double sided overlay, the undulation of the basket, the warp sticks protruding above the rim, and the Northwest California type design. Also the basket is noted as being a "rush basket", but no rush material was noted during the examination of the basket.

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