Spherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. No residue is visible in the interior. The basket has a sewn over tight spiral start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots. The background wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design on the base is a triangle from which two sets of parallel diagonal rows run across the side of the basket. The rim is plain wrapped with some partially peeled redbud wefts; the rim coil ending is tapered from three rods to two rods foundation and finished with three diagonal backstitches, but no overstitches. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under or clipped. The weft moving ends are concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 5% split; the wefts on the interior are more than 70% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Per Samuel Barrett Lizzie Sain, the weaver of this basket, is 1/2 Yuki 1/2 Wailaki. The basket is made in Wailaki style with practically no random rectangles. There are hairs woven into the basket.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Maker or artist:
Lizzie Sam
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters and diameter 23.7 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 73: tuk hot basket big" Photo: 15-4976. Published: AAE XXIV, 9, Pl 124 f. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.