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Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-753, described as Basket sieve; coated with grime. Coiled. Designs: 2 rows of alternating red and light stitches at the top, a band of red zigzags, another 2 rows of alternate-colored stitches, and one row of red. Two tags: "Wailaki" Per Ralph Shanks: Food processing basket with flaring sides, used, with food remains. The start is tightly coiled, with no indentation. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The rim is plain wrapped, with the end missing. There are horizontal bands of designs, a horizontal zigzag framed above and below by checkered bands. There are about 10 Yuki-style random rectangles. The majority of the stitches are non-interlocking. Most of the stitches are not split. The fag ends and moving ends are sometimes concealed and sometimes bound under. There is a down to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki based on the style, materials, and techniques used.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-721, described as Tray basket. Two tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide flaring coiled bowl, in the shape of a parching or cooking basket. It has staining and residue. The start is twined. The coil foundation is three rods with some splints. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design includes four bands of three horizontal lines with one break in each band at the same point. There are also random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is blunt, with about five back stiches. The rim ending lines up with the breaks in the design. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some bound under; the weft moving ends are bound under and some are concealed. About 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, with very few 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. The basket was collected in Hulls valley, which is in Wailaki territory, the features of the basket match both Yuki and Wailaki baskets.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-10570, described as Mortar; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Alder root (Alnus rubra). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Rim is Willow (Salix) hoop.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-329, described as Mortar basket; twined. Warp is willow (Salix), weft is gray pine (Pinus sabiniana). willow hoop bound with grape (Vitus californica). Three red bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-12046, described as Very old large hemispherical basket with crossing pattern of triangles. Bottom gone. Two tags "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl, formerly used for cooking acorn soup but repurposed into mortar hopper after base was lost. Food residue and wear marks are present on the interior. The start is missing. The coil foundation is three peeled shoot rods. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is five elements made up of diagonal stacks of upward and downward pointing triangles. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped, and the rim ending is missing. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are primarily concealed. There are very few split wefts on the exterior and interior. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with down to the right slant of weft twist. Purposefully made Yuki mortar hoppers are twined.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-12120, described as Mortar basket with Yuki mending at bottom. Grimy from use. Twined basket has been repaired by rude coiling and sewing, at lower hoop and below. Parallel horizontal bands of white 2-faced overlay; top one zig-zagging parallelograms; below, a zig-zag design with zig-zag edges. A hoop has been stitched to the inside of the rim, re-sewn in one spot; one row of 3-strand twining shows just below the hoop. Tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined mortar hopper basket with coiled repairs at base, used. For the twining: The warps are a peeled shoot. The wefts are conifer root with bear grass overlay designs. The twining is all plain twining except directly below the rim where there is one weft row of three strand twining followed by two rows of diagonal twining, mostly concealed under the rim wrapping. There is a reinforcing rod attached at the rim with wrapping of peeled and unpeeled shoot. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and an up to the right of weft twist. The weft overlay is primarily on the exterior, with irregular overlay on the interior. The basket undulates. For the coiling at the base: There is a reinforcing rod lattice twined at the uppermost two coils, where the twining starts. The coils are made up first of splints and later on rods. The weft materials are primarily peeled redbud. The stitches are non-interlocking; with no split stitches on the workface, with a few split stitches on the back face. The workface is on the exterior, and the work direction is to the right, with a down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2309, described as Mortar basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is yellow Pine. White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Red color is Maidenahir (Adiantum pedatum) dyed in Alder (Alnus rubra). Rim bound with Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Shows signs of use but in good condition. 2-faced overlay; white band with repeated red and black vertical zigzags; also thin white horizontal stripes and dotted stripes. Lower third of basket is done in 3-strand twining. A small hoop is latticed- twined to the outside 7.5 cm from the bottom; a hoop is sewn on to form rim at the top, with split redbud shoots.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-10540, described as Mortar; twined. Warp is Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica), weft is Conifer root (Pinophyta). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Rim is Willow (Salix) hoop.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-2975, described as Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Sedge (Carex). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Black pattern is Brake fern (Pteris quilina). Seven red bands. Asphalt around bottom.

Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11623, described as Mortar basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Pine root (Pinus). White pattern is Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax). Hazel hoop. Design composed of spots, double zigzags, dotted lines.