Flaring basketry bowl with black zigzag pattern. Basket broken near rim. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "40-A". Third tag "92". Fourth tag "No. 92 property of Mrs. George H. Taylor Fresno Cal.” Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket, possibly a cooking basket, with some residue and a burn at the base. The basket has a twined start, currently with a hole. The coil foundation is rod and splints of peeled shoots. The background wefts are maybe sedge root (Carex) with brown/black plant material designs. The design is diagonal stepped parallelograms. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped with rim ticks at one area of the rim. The coil ending is tapered. The weft fag ends are primarily concealed, with some clipped. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior has below 10% split stiches. The interior of the basket has over 90% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a leftward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The leftward work direction, the up to the right slant of weft twist, and the materials do not fit with Yuki materials and techniques, they possibly fit with Huchnom materials and techniques, and otherwise the basket is attributable to the Yukian area based on the use of splints in the coil foundation.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Huchnom and Yuki
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets, Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1916
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 41.7 centimeters and height 16.8 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Jewett Collection 86. For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1, p. 49.