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Start Over Collection place California Maker or artist Susie Jack
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 1-11988, described as Small hemispherical coiled basket with very open stitch. 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 Parching basket, accession number 1-11985, described as Old hemispherical parching basket. Tag "Yuki". Second tag "40-B". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled low broad parching basket. Used, with food debris and burns. There are some native repairs. The start is a pinhole start. The coil foundation is peeled shoot splints surrounding one to two rods. The basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud, the redbud on the rim is a darker color. The design includes two horizontal bands, with five rows of redbud each. There is a break in the design at the same space in each band. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, with peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim ending is missing for about three inches. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are concealed; the interior moving ends are concealed. There are about 40% split wefts on the interior, with less than 5% split on the exterior. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant weft twist. The basket has definite Yuki techniques and materials.
Hearst Museum object titled Sifting tray, accession number 1-11986, described as Small very old flaring coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, probably used for sifting and parching. The basket has some burns on the interior as well as food debris. There is a twined repair near the rim. The basket has a coiled start. The basket has a 3 rod coil foundation. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design is two horizontal bands. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are bound under and clipped. The moving ends are difficult to see, some are concealed. Most of the stitches are split on the back face and are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right, and the slant of weft twist is primarily down to the right.

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