Small hemispherical sifting basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue. The wefts are widely spaced. Tight twined start. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The rim is plain wrapped with a slightly tapered coil ending. The designs are horizontal one coil wide bands and random small rectangles. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and the wefts have a down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are primarily concealed, with some clipped. The weft moving ends are primarily tucked under, but in some cases concealed. The weft stitches are sometimes split on the backface.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Maker or artist:
Mrs. Jeff Davis [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:
Sifting basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 27 centimeters and height 8.9 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 38: wonmo basket (small)" Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 91. Per Ruth Merrill: Sifter basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.