Seed beater

Museum number:
1-12085
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012085
Alternate number:
1073 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Old and caked with grime from use. Openwork, twined, mixed plain and twill weaves, top three rows more tightly twined. Handle of sticks inserted through openwork and doubled over; outside of bundle is twined. At 2.5-5 cm from beater edge on handle, the twining wefts are braided and wrapped around the stick bundle. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The handle and scoop are primarily plain twined with some possible diagonal twining present. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is openwork plain twined to the base where there are four wefts rows with three weft strands braided together. 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.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Seed beaters, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 42 centimeters, diameter 22 centimeters, height 9 centimeters, and diameter 5.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 59" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 29: bel tcutchai seed beater
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12085, described as Old and caked with grime from use. Openwork, twined, mixed plain and twill weaves, top three rows more tightly twined. Handle of sticks inserted through openwork and doubled over; outside of bundle is twined. At 2.5-5 cm from beater edge on handle, the twining wefts are braided and wrapped around the stick bundle. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The handle and scoop are primarily plain twined with some possible diagonal twining present. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is openwork plain twined to the base where there are four wefts rows with three weft strands braided together. 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 2 of 2 titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12085, described as Old and caked with grime from use. Openwork, twined, mixed plain and twill weaves, top three rows more tightly twined. Handle of sticks inserted through openwork and doubled over; outside of bundle is twined. At 2.5-5 cm from beater edge on handle, the twining wefts are braided and wrapped around the stick bundle. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The handle and scoop are primarily plain twined with some possible diagonal twining present. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is openwork plain twined to the base where there are four wefts rows with three weft strands braided together. 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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12085, described as Old and caked with grime from use. Openwork, twined, mixed plain and twill weaves, top three rows more tightly twined. Handle of sticks inserted through openwork and doubled over; outside of bundle is twined. At 2.5-5 cm from beater edge on handle, the twining wefts are braided and wrapped around the stick bundle. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The handle and scoop are primarily plain twined with some possible diagonal twining present. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is openwork plain twined to the base where there are four wefts rows with three weft strands braided together. 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.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seed beater, accession number 1-12085, described as Old and caked with grime from use. Openwork, twined, mixed plain and twill weaves, top three rows more tightly twined. Handle of sticks inserted through openwork and doubled over; outside of bundle is twined. At 2.5-5 cm from beater edge on handle, the twining wefts are braided and wrapped around the stick bundle. Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined seed beater, used with residue. The warps and wefts are a peeled shoot. The scoop's warps converge and diverge without crossing. The handle and scoop are primarily plain twined with some possible diagonal twining present. The handle is a dense bundle of shoots that is openwork plain twined to the base where there are four wefts rows with three weft strands braided together. 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.

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