Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud. At the start of the basket there are elongated random rectangles. The main design is three horizontal bands inside of which there are alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud rectangles. There are random rectangles on the interior and exterior. The weft fag ends are concealed or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with two back stitches and is cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 40-45% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. There is a human hair at the top exterior of the basket, in the top design band and there is a second hair in the middle design band.
Donor:
Henry B. Hickey Jr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Jr.
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
H. B. Hickey Sr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Sr.
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets, Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.1 centimeters and diameter 28.8 centimeters