Grimy and worn from use. Coiled, with design in red of running steps that cross or intersect. Tag: "Wailaki" crossed out in ink. Two other tags with "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Food serving basket with flaring sides. The start is tightly coiled, with no indentation. The foundation is made of mixed rods and splints. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The rim is plain wrapped, with rim ticks all the way around, with an abrupt ending, with a few backstitches. The design is two curved lines made up trapezoids, which cross at two points. There are a few Yuki-style random rectangles. The majority of the stitches are non-interlocking. 20% of the stitches are split. The weft fag ends and moving ends are primarily concealed, with some clipped. 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, but not Maidu.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Hulls Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Hulls Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones and Weilaikie Pete
Collection date:
July 19, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 90.