Plate basket

Museum number:
1-12077
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010012077
Alternate number:
1056 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Openwork plain twined plate form basket. Fragile, very grimy from use, worn, 1 break in edge. Much of top row gone. 3 top rows closely twined; weft ends turned upwards to become warps or parallel existing warps. Two labels "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used, with food residue. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the 3/4 inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up 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:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 9 centimeters and diameter 46 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 23: Yuki make this same kind but with bigger sticks, therefore a coarser weave." Per Ruth Merrill: Openwork plate basket; twined. Warp and weft are hazel (Corylus cornuta californica).
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12077, described as Openwork plain twined plate form basket. Fragile, very grimy from use, worn, 1 break in edge. Much of top row gone. 3 top rows closely twined; weft ends turned upwards to become warps or parallel existing warps. Two labels "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used, with food residue. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the 3/4 inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12077, described as Openwork plain twined plate form basket. Fragile, very grimy from use, worn, 1 break in edge. Much of top row gone. 3 top rows closely twined; weft ends turned upwards to become warps or parallel existing warps. Two labels "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used, with food residue. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the 3/4 inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12077, described as Openwork plain twined plate form basket. Fragile, very grimy from use, worn, 1 break in edge. Much of top row gone. 3 top rows closely twined; weft ends turned upwards to become warps or parallel existing warps. Two labels "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used, with food residue. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the 3/4 inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12077, described as Openwork plain twined plate form basket. Fragile, very grimy from use, worn, 1 break in edge. Much of top row gone. 3 top rows closely twined; weft ends turned upwards to become warps or parallel existing warps. Two labels "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used, with food residue. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the 3/4 inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up to the right slant of weft twist.

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