Small hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, probably used for sifting. The basket has food debris inside it. The start is twined. The basket has a 3 rod coil foundation with a splint as well. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design is a series of single coil wide horizontal bands with breaks, as well as random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped and the rim coil ending is missing, it was cut off. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed. The moving ends are concealed. About half of the stitches are split on the back face. The basket has an exterior workface, the work direction is to the right, and the slant of weft twist is primarily down to the right.
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:
Maggie Pike
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.8 centimeters and diameter 33 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 69: wunumol" Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 90.