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Start Over Object class Basketry (object genre) Collection place California Culture or time period Yuki
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 1-72955, described as Coiled basket, incurved, coarse weave.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67839, described as Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Per Ralph Shanks and Christa Ogier. Tag says "Yuki". Shallow slightly flaring coiled basket, used, with some residue at the bottom of the basket on the interior. It has a tight spiral start. The warp material is unidentified splints, the weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud. Fag ends are bound under and also clipped and the moving ends are bound under and also concealed. The majority of the stitches on the back face are split, the rim is plain wrapped with a blunt coil ending with 2 diagonal back stitches with a missing third. Design is comprised of three vertical columns of paralleligrams and parallel lines of unpeeled redbud. There are also random rectangles of redbud. 4 weft rows below the rim on one side there is a 2.75 inch long strand of unpeeled redbud which the weaver attached using alternate stitches of her weft elements. The workface is exterior, work direction is to the right and weft twist is down and to the right. There are no hairs located on the basket.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-12024, described as Small open hemispherical basket said to have been used for leaching buckeyes. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Open twined buckeye leaching basket. Used with wear. The start is a crossed warped twined start. The warp foundation is peeled shoots. The wefts are of an uncertain material, with two possible bands of unpeeled redbud designs. The basket is plain twined. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Surviving buckeye leaching baskets are very rare.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-2962, described as Small coiled basket. Vertical design of red right-angled triangles.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-67811b, no description available.
Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11824, described as Old torn flat coiled basket. Extremely worn and caked with grime. Many fractures, one large piece of edge gone - very fragile! Coiled shoots. Original design, if there was one, is undetectable now.

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