Globose coiled basket. In good condition. Row of vertically elongated triangles below rim. Other designs are gradually up and down steps. 3 small marks on bottom. Designs in red. Tag "Wailaki att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Twined start, slightly indented. Three rod foundation of peeled shoots. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is four horizontal bands of undulating steps, with a horizontal band of triangles at the rim. There are three U shaped designs at the base. There are no random rectangles. The rim is wrapped, with an inch long tapered ending. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are about 90% split stitches on the interior and about 50% split on the exterior. There is a hair woven into the basket, one coil row below the rim finish.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Maker or artist:
Wife of Captain Jim
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Plate baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 28 centimeters and height 12.5 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 107: "kinego [Design] = wild geese [Triangle design] = standing" Photo: "15-6635" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is possibly willow or hazel. Welft is redbud, and red pattern is also redbud.