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Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12107, described as Coated with grime from use (tarweed); some seeds stuck in. Handle looks relatively new; a bunch of shoots stuck through open holes and crudely wrapped and tied together. Openwork, mixed plain and twill twining. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 48: wilk seed beater". Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot on the scoop, the handle is an unpeeled red shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The scoop is primarily plain twined. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is wrapped with a partially peeled shoots. The larger rods in the handle go to the center of the scoop and are bent back to join the handle. The slant of weft twist is up to the right. The warps are trimmed at the rim and handle.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-4102, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Hazel (Corylus cornuta californica).
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10937, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-20985, described as Seed beater; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix).
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 2-48382, described as Oval scoop shape; plain twined openwork. Made of willow shoot.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10480, described as Seed beater basket; warp and weft are Willow (Salix) or Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Turned warp.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-10497, described as Seed beater basket; warp and weft are Willow (Salix) or Redbud (Cercis occidentalis). Turned warp.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-198157, described as Unfinished. Wickerwork.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-53986, described as Openwork, twined. Tag "#3" second tag “Maidu". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork plain twined basket seed beater, used and has residue. Peeled shoots for the warps and whole and split peeled shoots for the wefts. There is a reinforcing rod at the rim that may have once been connected but is broken, and is wrapped on with peeled shoots. There is cloth tied at the handle. The rim is wrapped at bottom of the basket. Primarily there are two warps wrapped in the wefts. There are primarily convergent warps. The weft strands vary between double and single strand. The starting knot started at the handle. The basket has a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket is probably not Sierra Miwok and is possibly from Eastern Central California in origin, maybe Maidu based on the slant of weft twist and the tag on the basket. The shape is also the shape of a typical Maidu seed beater.
Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-39369, described as Plain twine.

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