Parching basket

Museum number:
1-11899
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1027 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking pot or parching basket. Used, with food debris. The base is a mend and is a separate basket. The start is a tight spiral start, with some stitch mends over it. The coil foundation for both baskets is splint and rods. The mended base appears to be in peeled shoot/ perhaps willow with unpeeled shoot/willow stitching the two baskets together. The main basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud. The design includes horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud, three bands with 3 to 5 rows each; all with a break in each row that lines up with the other rows. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, the rim ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the interior moving ends are not visible. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant 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) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes: p. 13. called yoncum" Remarks: For materials see Supplementary cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) wood. Red pattern is Redbud. Mended with Willow (Salix) bark.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Parching basket, accession number 1-11899, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking pot or parching basket. Used, with food debris. The base is a mend and is a separate basket. The start is a tight spiral start, with some stitch mends over it. The coil foundation for both baskets is splint and rods. The mended base appears to be in peeled shoot/ perhaps willow with unpeeled shoot/willow stitching the two baskets together. The main basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud. The design includes horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud, three bands with 3 to 5 rows each; all with a break in each row that lines up with the other rows. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, the rim ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the interior moving ends are not visible. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Parching basket, accession number 1-11899, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking pot or parching basket. Used, with food debris. The base is a mend and is a separate basket. The start is a tight spiral start, with some stitch mends over it. The coil foundation for both baskets is splint and rods. The mended base appears to be in peeled shoot/ perhaps willow with unpeeled shoot/willow stitching the two baskets together. The main basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud. The design includes horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud, three bands with 3 to 5 rows each; all with a break in each row that lines up with the other rows. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, the rim ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the interior moving ends are not visible. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parching basket, accession number 1-11899, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking pot or parching basket. Used, with food debris. The base is a mend and is a separate basket. The start is a tight spiral start, with some stitch mends over it. The coil foundation for both baskets is splint and rods. The mended base appears to be in peeled shoot/ perhaps willow with unpeeled shoot/willow stitching the two baskets together. The main basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud. The design includes horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud, three bands with 3 to 5 rows each; all with a break in each row that lines up with the other rows. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, the rim ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the interior moving ends are not visible. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parching basket, accession number 1-11899, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking pot or parching basket. Used, with food debris. The base is a mend and is a separate basket. The start is a tight spiral start, with some stitch mends over it. The coil foundation for both baskets is splint and rods. The mended base appears to be in peeled shoot/ perhaps willow with unpeeled shoot/willow stitching the two baskets together. The main basket wefts are unpeeled and peeled redbud. The design includes horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud, three bands with 3 to 5 rows each; all with a break in each row that lines up with the other rows. There are random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, the rim ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. The weft fag ends are bound under or clipped; the interior moving ends are not visible. The basket has a rightward work direction, with a down to the right of slant weft twist.

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