Collection place: Mendocino County, California / Maker or artist: Nancy Sheldon - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12000, described as Very old hemishperical coiled basket with open stitch. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for food serving. Some food residue in the base of the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splint and rods of peeled redbud shoots. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 50% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-11997, described as Small hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Shallow coiled basket bowl. The basket has very little to no food residue. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is mixed rods and splints. The background wefts are a peeled shoot, possibly redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is three curvilinear "V"s. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is cut off. For 1 3/4 inches the remaining coil ending is back stitched. The weft fag ends are sometimes clipped, sometimes bound under, and sometimes tucked. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. 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 1-12001, described as Large old flaring coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag: "1174". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide brimmed coiled cooking basket bowl. There is some residue on the bottom interior as well as abrasions on the interior wefts. There is an original repair at the base. The starting knot is twined and sewn over. The coil foundation is peeled redbud shoot rods and splints. The weft background is peeled redbud and the weft design is unpeeled redbud. The design is three sets of three horizontal bands of redbud with a break in the design that lines up. There are many random rectangles, including on the rim. The coil ending is blunt with seven diagonal overstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The weft stiches on the exterior are less than 10% split. The weft stiches on the interior are more than 50% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11998, described as Small spherical coiled basket of wide stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose storage basket. There are no abrasions, but some type of residue is visible on the interior base. The basket has a coiled spiral start. The coil foundation is splints with rod and splints close to the rim. The wefts are interior peeled redbud. There is no design. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has 10 diagonal back stitches, and the coil ending snapped off. The weft fag ends are tucked. The weft moving ends are concealed. The interior of the basket has 90% split stiches. About 15% of the wefts are split on the exterior. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist.