Object class: Cooking baskets / Collection place: Mendocino County, California / Maker or artist: Patty Gray [Yuki] - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Cooking baskets Collection place Mendocino County, California Maker or artist Patty Gray [Yuki]

Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11961, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide- mouthed coiled basket bowl, the same shape and size as a typical Yuki cooking bowl. It has food residue in it but no evidence of cooking, it could have been used as a sifter. The basket has a pinhole start. The coil foundation is mixed rods and splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is six horizontal bands with varying widths, a few with open and closed rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is broken, but several herringbone stitches are left. The weft fag ends are a mixture of clipped and concealed. The weft moving ends are concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has up to 80% split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist.