Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled possible cooking basket. The basket has food debris. The basket start is twined. The warps are rods. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud as well as many random unpeeled redbud rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is tapered with seven back stiches. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under or concealed and the moving ends are concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of 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:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 36.5 centimeters and height 10.7 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes: p. 10. tilik = Stonyford lang yoncok = Yuki tuk = Yuki". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88.