Old plate form openwork basket. In good condition, just dirty. Plain twining; weft ends turned upwards to parallel warp. 3 rows at top more closely woven. A small piece of cotton fabric is tied on the edge at one point. Tag "1302". Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket bowl. Crossed warp start, perpendicular. Peeled shoots warps and wefts, perahps willow. Starting at the starting knot: there is plain twining to the rim where there are three closer spaced plain twined rows. The rim is trimmed, with some warps extending 1/16th of an inch above the rim The warps are primarily parallel, and new warps are tightly bound to old warps. The basket does not undulate. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
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:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.5 centimeters and diameter 39 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 104: "la'dul" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 59" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are hazel.