Globose coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globose storage basket. There are no abraisions or food residue. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is three rod shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design includes diagonal crossed lines, and three triangles with flags at the base. The design is called deer trails by Samuel Barrett's informant Lizzie Chicken. There are a few small random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has 10 back stitches, and the coil ending snapped off. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed. The weft moving ends are concealed. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a down 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:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11.7 centimeters and diameter 20.8 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 47: milmican hakap = deer trails crossing, name of the design. mili, miL = deer micam = trails hakap = meeting or crossing". Published: AAE XXIV 9 fig 3. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 91. Per Ruth Merrill: Acorn meal basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.