Very old, much worn parching basket. Bottom mended with the side of a Wailaki burden basket. Tag: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket with base patched with twined basket fragment which is lashed on with leather. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods. The basket appears to have peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is four horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are a few split stitches on the backface. The weft fag and moving ends are bound under or concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The twined patch at the base has an up to the right slant of weft twist. It has peeled shoot warps and probably conifer root wefts. The main basket and patch are most likely Wailaki per Samuel Barrett's field notes and because of the lack of random unpeeled redbud rectangles.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and 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
Context of use:
Parching basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 12.3 centimeters and diameter 45 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 32. tcegat Wailaki coiled basket". Photo: 15-4975. Published: AAE XXIV 9 Pl 122 f. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Parching basket; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is Redbud wood (Cercis occidentalis).Red pattern is Redbud bark.