Openwork plate-form basket. Dirty from use. Basically plain twining; weft ends turned to parallel existing warps. Note the projecting warp sticks at border. Tag: "Wailaki" Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork basket shallow bowl, used, probably for food serving or drying food. Perpendicular crossed warp start. Probably willow or hazel warps and wefts. The wefts are over 1-4 warps. The warps are primarily parallel, with some crossed. The warps are paired when new warps are added. New warps are bound under in some cases and then twisted up to pair with the adjacent warp. The basket appears to be plain twined, however the weft rows do not always line up due to the warps. The rim is trimmed with the warp sticks extending above the uppermost weft row up to .5 inch. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right; the slant of weft twist is up to the right. The basket does not significantly undulate.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Maker or artist:
Sally Ward
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 47 centimeters and height 10 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 55: "kaikel" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are hazel.