Small old plate form sifting basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled sifting basket, with residue. Tight spiral coiled start. Three rod foundation of peeled shoots. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is alternating horizontal bands of peeled and unpeeled redbud. There are no random rectangles. The rim is much damaged, but was wrapped. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are obscured by residue. There are about 50% split stitches on the interior and exterior.
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) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Sifter.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 7.8 centimeters and diameter 30 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 68: wunumol sifter. The larger like 1180 & 1181 are for parching never for sifting.