Mortar basket

Museum number:
1-11898
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1026 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and 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
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Mortar baskets (baskets by function), and Mortar baskets (food processing)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used originally as a parching, etc., basket but since bottom was gone said to have been used as a mortar.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 40.4 centimeters and height 11.4 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes: p. 12-13. same as above [1-11897] but with the bottom missing. Used as mortar. Not typical mortar seems to be called yun sop when converted like this one into a mortar." Published: AAE XXIV 9 Fig. 3. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary cat. 1 Page 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar basket, accession number 1-11898, described as Very old hemispherical parching basket with bottom missing. Tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, with a missing base, used for parching and possibly as a mortar hopper. It has staining and residue. It does not have reinforcing rods like a typical Yuki mortar hopper, but may have been used as one after the base was broken. The start is missing. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled. The design is horizontal rectangles, 45 wefts long, stepped diagonally. There are also random rectangles. The rim is damaged, less than 50% remaining. The remnants are plain wrapped with an alternating pattern of peeled and unpeeled redbud rim ticks. The weft fag ends are bound down or clipped, and the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

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