Object name: Storage basket / Object type: ethnography / Collection place: Northwestern California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12023, described as Small spherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose storage basket. There are no abrasions or food residue. The basket has a coiled start. The coil foundation is three rod peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design includes diagonal crossed lines. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is slightly tapered and has 13 diagonal back stitches. The weft fag ends are bound under, clipped, or concealed. The weft moving ends are bound under or concealed. The exterior of the basket has a few split stiches; the interior has a majority of split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The maker, Lizzie Sain, was half-Yuki half-Wailaki. The basket has features that include both Yuki and Wailaki techniques and materials. The lack of a presence of random design rectangles makes this more similar to a Wailaki made basket.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-164463, described as Large, twined basket. Tag "Northwest Calif. att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined storage basket. Crossed warp starting knot. The warp material is probably willow. The wefts are conifer root. The weft overlay is red-dyed woodwardia and beargrass. Green/brown string is at the rim in several areas, possibly as a repair. At the starting knot there is three strand twining. After that plain twining continues 3 inches where there are three weft rows of three strand twining. Plain twining continues after that up to the rim where there is a .25 inch of open warps. The rim has multiple rods reinforcing it wrapped in wild grape. The interior has three bands of reinforcing rods. The design includes several bands of triangles. The basket has an up to the right slant of weft twist. The workface is on the exterior, with a rightward work direction. The overlay is single sided on the exterior with some design coming through to the interior. The basket is from Northwestern California.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-940, described as Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine root (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11983, described as Coiled basket of truncated cone form. Design in triangles vertically arranged. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad coiled bowl, in the shape of cooking basket. There is food debris and some burns on the interior. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation includes redbud rods and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The design includes four vertical bands of four stacked triangles, pointing to the rim of the basket. At the rim and at the base there is another band of triangles pointing towards each other. There is a small random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped. The primary design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending is very slightly tapered, with about three back stitches. The rim has a larger diameter coil than the rest of the basket. The weft fag ends are bound under; the weft moving ends are concealed. About 50% 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.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11658, described as Storage basket; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Cloth handles.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11696, described as Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and peeled Hazel. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax).

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11996, described as Large old hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. The basket has food residue and burns; it was probably used for both parching and cooking, with evidence of abrasion from cooking stones. The basket has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation is splints. The background wefts are peeled redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is four horizontal bands, which have occasional dips that mirror the bands above and below. The rim is plain wrapped in unpeeled redbud. The coil ending is backstitched for two inches, and has a blunt end. The weft fag ends are sometimes clipped, sometimes tucked. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has about 50% split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12007, described as Large hemispherical basket used for parching. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad shallow coiled bowl, in the shape of parching basket. There is food debris present. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation includes peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The design includes one plain horizontal band at the base followed by two horizontal bands of diamond/ spinning top shaped designs that connect between the bands. There are random rectangles visible on the exterior. The rim is plain wrapped. The design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending has three stitches missing. The weft fag ends are concealed or clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed and some are bound under. About 50% 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.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11750, described as Storage basket; twined. Warp is peeled Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and peeled Hazel. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Used for containing fish nets. Very grimy from use. Smoke scaffolds inside. Single face overlay floated on back. White overlay design, difficult to distinguish. Vertical zigzag bands. Plain twined. Bottom is openwork.

Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-11699, described as Basket; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red dye is Chain fern (Woodwardia spinulosa) in Alder (Alnus rubra). Small openwork storage basket (Rumi tsek) with 3 narrow bands of pattern.

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