Basket

Museum number:
1-11979
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1146 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.
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 11.1 centimeters and diameter 45 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.53: ya'cum Yuki basket but mended with side of Wailaki burden [basket]" Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is hazel, weft is redbud. Mended with Wailaki basket.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-11979, described as Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-11979, described as Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11979, described as Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-11979, described as Very old much worn hemispherical, parching basket. Two tags: "Yuki" Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket that has had broken bottom replaced with twined patch. The patch was stitched on with a possibly non- native material. The basket has food debris. The warps are rods and splints. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. The rim is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are many split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are bound under, with the moving ends concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The work direction, materials and techniques used in the basket are consistent with Yuki manufacture. The twined patch at the base of the basket is said to have been taken from an old Wailaki basket, per Samuel Barrett's informants. The patch is plain twined with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The wefts may be conifer root. The warps are peeled shoot.

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