Burden basket

Museum number:
1-12058
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Conical openwork twined basket. Said to be of Huchnom make. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork conical gathering or hanging storage basket. Used with signs of wear. The basket has a crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are possibly unpeeled willow. The rim is braided with the warps bent to the right. The basket is plain twined with no designs. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Resembles Yuki buckeye leaching baskets 1-11901 and 1-12024.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Huchnom
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 21.7 centimeters and diameter 26 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Dogwood, weft is Willow
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12058, described as Conical openwork twined basket. Said to be of Huchnom make. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork conical gathering or hanging storage basket. Used with signs of wear. The basket has a crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are possibly unpeeled willow. The rim is braided with the warps bent to the right. The basket is plain twined with no designs. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Resembles Yuki buckeye leaching baskets 1-11901 and 1-12024.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12058, described as Conical openwork twined basket. Said to be of Huchnom make. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork conical gathering or hanging storage basket. Used with signs of wear. The basket has a crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are possibly unpeeled willow. The rim is braided with the warps bent to the right. The basket is plain twined with no designs. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Resembles Yuki buckeye leaching baskets 1-11901 and 1-12024.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12058, described as Conical openwork twined basket. Said to be of Huchnom make. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork conical gathering or hanging storage basket. Used with signs of wear. The basket has a crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are possibly unpeeled willow. The rim is braided with the warps bent to the right. The basket is plain twined with no designs. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Resembles Yuki buckeye leaching baskets 1-11901 and 1-12024.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Burden basket, accession number 1-12058, described as Conical openwork twined basket. Said to be of Huchnom make. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork conical gathering or hanging storage basket. Used with signs of wear. The basket has a crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are possibly unpeeled willow. The rim is braided with the warps bent to the right. The basket is plain twined with no designs. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist. Resembles Yuki buckeye leaching baskets 1-11901 and 1-12024.

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