Many holes, larger ones repaired with cotton and jute string or split shoot sewing; hoop lashed to top with buckskin, now reinforced with commercial string; bottom of basket patched with stiff leather. Plain twined except for bottom 3.5 cm above patch (probably under patch also) done in 3-strand twining. 2-faced overlay: top design band has light ground with groups of 2 connected parallelograms in dark overlay and dark stripe below; rest of basket except tip has all-over stepped design in white. Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 49: tot tocu Two names for burden basket." Two tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined burden basket, used and patched. Starting knot present but obscured by a leather cover. The basket has peeled shoot warps with beargrass and possibly fern stem overlay. There are several patches in different materials including redbud, cotton string, and leather. A rod is lashed on with leather on the interior of the rim. From the bottom of the basket above the leather there is three strand twining for 1 1/4 inches, followed by plain twining to the uppermost weft row, where there are some remnants of one weft row of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed. The design in amplified concentric lines. The slant of weft twist is up to the right; the work direction is to the right. The workface is on the exterior. The overlay is two sided, with the primary design on the exterior. The basket slightly undulates.
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:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Burden basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: "15-8621" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 59" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 49: tot tocu Two names for burden basket.