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Start Over Maker or artist Lizzie Sam Function 1.4 Transportation
Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12028, described as Very small burden basket, roughly made but said to be of old Yuki Type. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "1203". Per Ralph Shanks: Close twined conical gathering basket. Has food residue and use wear. The start is concealed under a leather cap at the base of the basket. The warp foundation is a peeled shoot. The weft materials appear to be conifer root with a design of unpeeled redbud in overlay. The rim has unpeeled redbud and leather lashing holding a reinforcing rod to the interior of the rim. A leather strap is secured on the side with a cloth knot on the interior. The basket is plain twined. The decoration is a single band of unpeeled redbud done in single sided overlay on the exterior of the basket. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

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