Old plate form parching basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket parcher. The basket has food residue and burns. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation is rods and splints. The background wefts are peeled redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is horizontal bands with breaks in the design. The basket has many random rectangles. The coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are mostly clipped, with some concealed. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has a slight majority of split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and primarily 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
Maker or artist:
Lizzie Martin [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:
Used for parching.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 centimeters and diameter 42 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.67: yunsop Used for parching. Both [1-12007 and 1-12008] same use but depth seems to affect name. Deeper is yon cum." Photo: 15-4977. Published: BAEB 78 Pl 75; AAE XXIV 9 Pl 123 e. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 92. Per Ruth Merrill: Storage basket; coiled. Warp is Redbud, weft is Redbud. Red pattern is Redbud bark.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #19: Montecito Elementary School/Maxine Rockwell (October 23, 1962–October 25, 1962), S1966-1967 #67: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Lily (February 2, 1967–February 27, 1967), and S1967-1968 #149: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Albert B. Elsasser (June 24, 1968–June 24, 1968)