Coiled, 3-rod foundation, basin shaped, red-brown designs of two horizontal bands of triangles with points up, circle around center. Note the anomalous additions to the designs near the closure of the bands. Sedge root and split redbud shoots sewing materials. Starting knot twined.
Donor:
Jeanne Earl and University Appropriation
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Jeanne Earl
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1971
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 39 centimeters
Comment:
The precise attribution of this basket is somewhat of a puzzle. It is most closely comparable to a group of about 6 aberrant specimens in the Yuki collection, and its closest relative is 1-67847. It is Round Valley Yuki-like in the following features: blunt coil end with back stitches, deep basin shape, mixed stitch type, horizontal band designs with closure marked by added elements, simple ring pattern on base. On the other hand, it is unlike Round Valley Yuki style in work direction, splice type, use of sedge root weft, 3 strand braided twining in starting knot. Perhaps it is from the Huchnom Yuki, or less likely the Nomlaki, from whom C. H. Merriam collected some Yuki-like baskets. Lawrence E. Dawson, 1971.