Object class: Seed beaters / Collection place: Northwestern California / Maker or artist: Maggie Pike - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Seed beaters Collection place Northwestern California Maker or artist Maggie Pike

Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12016, described as Old. Per Ralph Shanks and Christa Ogier. Tag says "Yuki". Seed beater basket, plain-twined, used with some residue on both handle and bowl. Looks traditional, probably not made for sale. Basket has a cross-warp starting knot. The handle and bowl are made of peeled and unpeeled redbud shoots. Rim is open-wrapped with some warps extending beyond the rim of the bowl. Handle is attached to the bowl by extending some of the warps into the center of the bowl and then bending them back into the handle. Some of the handle warps have been integrated into the bowl. Slant of weft twist is up and to the right with an exterior work face, work direction is uncertain. The handle is wrapped with redbud. There are no observed hairs and the attribution is a Yuki seed beater. There is no design apparent.