Storage basket

Museum number:
1-12025
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1200 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Large spherical coiled basket with open stitched. Tags: "Yuki". Note found inside basket "40A breaks not lined" possibly in Larry Dawson's handwriting. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. Some residue in the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splints of peeled shoots. The coil foundation on the base of the basket has splints that are oriented in a different position than the rest of the basket. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is a band of three coil rows of unpeeled redbud. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has four diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 30% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and up to the right of slant of weft twist on the base and a down to the right slant of weft twist on the rest of the basket. There is an insect casing on the interior, opposite the tag with pink string.
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:
Nancy Jackson [Yuki]
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 16 centimeters and diameter 25 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 73: kolkaitil" Photo: 15-4886. Published: AAE XXIV, 9, 124 d. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 91. Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark. Overlaid with redbud sapwood.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12025, described as Large spherical coiled basket with open stitched. Tags: "Yuki". Note found inside basket "40A breaks not lined" possibly in Larry Dawson's handwriting. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. Some residue in the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splints of peeled shoots. The coil foundation on the base of the basket has splints that are oriented in a different position than the rest of the basket. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is a band of three coil rows of unpeeled redbud. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has four diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 30% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and up to the right of slant of weft twist on the base and a down to the right slant of weft twist on the rest of the basket. There is an insect casing on the interior, opposite the tag with pink string.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12025, described as Large spherical coiled basket with open stitched. Tags: "Yuki". Note found inside basket "40A breaks not lined" possibly in Larry Dawson's handwriting. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. Some residue in the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splints of peeled shoots. The coil foundation on the base of the basket has splints that are oriented in a different position than the rest of the basket. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is a band of three coil rows of unpeeled redbud. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has four diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 30% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and up to the right of slant of weft twist on the base and a down to the right slant of weft twist on the rest of the basket. There is an insect casing on the interior, opposite the tag with pink string.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12025, described as Large spherical coiled basket with open stitched. Tags: "Yuki". Note found inside basket "40A breaks not lined" possibly in Larry Dawson's handwriting. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. Some residue in the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splints of peeled shoots. The coil foundation on the base of the basket has splints that are oriented in a different position than the rest of the basket. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is a band of three coil rows of unpeeled redbud. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has four diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 30% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and up to the right of slant of weft twist on the base and a down to the right slant of weft twist on the rest of the basket. There is an insect casing on the interior, opposite the tag with pink string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Storage basket, accession number 1-12025, described as Large spherical coiled basket with open stitched. Tags: "Yuki". Note found inside basket "40A breaks not lined" possibly in Larry Dawson's handwriting. Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, probably made for storage. Some residue in the interior. The wefts are widely spaced. The basket has a sewn over clock spring coiled start. The coil foundation is splints of peeled shoots. The coil foundation on the base of the basket has splints that are oriented in a different position than the rest of the basket. The wefts are sapwood (interior) redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is a band of three coil rows of unpeeled redbud. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending has four diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The basket has non-interlocking stitches. The wefts on the exterior are less than 10% split; the wefts on the interior have over 30% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and up to the right of slant of weft twist on the base and a down to the right slant of weft twist on the rest of the basket. There is an insect casing on the interior, opposite the tag with pink string.

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