Seed beater Per Ralph Shanks and Christa Ogier. Tag says "Yuki". Seed beater basket, plain-twined, used, but with no residue apparent. Looks traditional, probably not made for sale. Basket has a cross-warp starting knot. The handle and bowl are made of peeled and unpeeled redbud shoots. Rim is open-wrapped with some warps extending beyond the rim of the bowl. Handle is attached to the bowl by extending some of the warps into the center of the bowl and then bending them back into the handle. Some of the handle warps have been integrated into the bowl. Slant of weft twist is up and to the right with an exterior work face, work direction is uncertain. The handle is wrapped with redbud. There are no observed hairs and the attribution is a Yuki seed beater. There is no design apparent. Bowl is shallower and broader than others in the collection, same diameter as 1-11994.
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:
Wife of Dutchman
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Seed beaters, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 48 centimeters and diameter 24 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 53: ...weLk". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Seed basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix).