1182 (original number) and 40-A (additional number, On tag inside of basket)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Very old large hemispherical basket. Tags "Yuki" second tag "40-A". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide coiled bowl, in the shape of an acorn mush cooking basket. It has extensive staining, burns, and residue. There are some insect holes. The start is twined. The coil foundation is splints with unpeeled redbud rods. The weft material is redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The design includes the base which is unpeeled redbud followed by diagonally stacked peeled and unpeeled redbud parallelograms all the way to the rim. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; with the rim coil ending missing, there are about six stitches missing. The rim is glued in several places, as well as deliberately cut. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed; the weft moving ends are concealed. 30% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 20% 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, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
For cooking and storing acorn mush.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 47.3 centimeters and height 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 67: lawu for cooking & storing acorn mush" Published: AAE XXIV 9 fig 3. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud). Red pattern is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis).