Very old cooking basket with hoop at border. Twined; 2 ragged spots where hoop is broken off rim; quite worn from use. 3-strand twining at start, 5 cm radius; also 1 row 12 cm from rim and just below rim. Very grubby. Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used with food residue. Crossed warp start, indented, with the warp sticks in a non-Northwest California style. Peeled shoot warps, with conifer root wefts. The rim is wrapped, with peeled/unpeeled shoots attaching several rods. The basket undulates. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up to the right slant of weft twist. There are at least two native repairs on the base. Barrett spoke with the Yuki couple who he purchased this basket from, Dutchman and his wife, who claimed this basket was made by an old Yuki man. The basket has Wailaki characteristics as Barrett seems to have asserted, as there are no known twined Yuki cooking pots, Yuki only coiled their cooking baskets as far as it is known.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 18 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-8620" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 52: lawe" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Hazel, weft is pine root. White pattern is Beargrass.