Globular, coiled. Design of 5 vertical bands of horizontal bars in rosebud material. About 3 cm of coil ending lost (plastic bag).Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "Yuki collected in 1871". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled storage/gift basket. Some non-food residue is in the bottom interior. The basket has a twined start, with unpeeled redbud. The coil foundation is made up of peeled shoot rods and some splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud in five vertical bands. There are random rectangles. There are three dots of red paint on the rim. The rim is plain wrapped with peeled redbud. The rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are clipped or bound under. The moving ends are concealed. The wefts are sometimes interlocking and sometimes non-interlocking, 50% of the wefts are split on the interior and about 30% are split on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The work direction is to the right with a down to the right slant of weft twist. There is a hair woven in to the base of the basket.
Donor:
George Coles
Collection place:
Junction Whitney creek and Eel river, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Junction Whitney Cr. & Eel R.
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Mrs. C. A. Wood
Collection date:
1871
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Of type used for gifts and keeping small articles.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 21.3 centimeters and height 11.2 centimeters