Object class: Mortar baskets (baskets by function) / Collection place: The Americas / Maker or artist: Louise Hudson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Mortar baskets (baskets by function) Collection place The Americas Maker or artist Louise Hudson

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-12056, described as Mortar basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mortar hopper basket, used with some debris and use wear at base. The basket start is missing. The warp material is a peeled shoot. The background wefts are sedge root and the weft design material is unpeeled redbud and the backside (white side) of redbud. The basket is lattice twined up to the last three weft rows, which are plain twined, followed by one row of plain twining over two warps. The design has three elements, starting near the base there are two parallel bands, followed by two bands of alternating unpeeled and flipped white redbud rectangles, followed by one band of differing sized rectangles of the same material. There is a break/ dau in each of the designs. The rim is wrapped with a tan peeled shoot. The warps are trimmed at the rim. There is a reinforcing rod wrapped on the top interior of the rim. There are four groups of three to four rim wrapping/reinforcing stiches that extend five weft rows below the rim. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials, techniques, and Barrett's documentation this basket is Huchnom.