Very old large cylindrical cooking basket with hoop at border. Grimy and worn from use. Hole in bottom. 2-faced overlay; vertically zig-zagging bands of triangles, 2 stripes around top. 3-strand twining 4.5 radius from start, then 2 rows at 7 cm radius from start, and 4 top rows around rim; fifth row from the top peeled shoots lattice woven into place. Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, it has several plain twined rows on the exterior and interior, probably over four warps. See 1-2543 and 1-97844 for a similar start. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. The rim is trimmed with a few warp sticks protruding at the non broken areas of the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 27 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 78: "tcisum lawe white Wailaki basket material" Photo: "15-8623" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 59