Plate basket

Museum number:
1-12201
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1335 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Mitoám Kai Pomo and Wailaki
Maker or artist:
George Dobson
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 26 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 113: "batu seed beater." Photo: "15-6633" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are hazel.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plate basket, accession number 1-12201, described as Plate form openwork basket with herring bone border. Dirty from use. A hole sewn with cotton twine. Plain twined; warp ends twined over each other to form rim. About half of rim is missing; handle missing. Samuel Barrett field notes "batu seed beater." Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined basket bowl, used, with residue. The warps and wefts are peeled shoots. There is a patch on the side of the bowl, with commercial string. Crossed warp start, perpendicular warp sticks. The basket is plain twined all the way to the rim, where the warp sticks are brought up and bound down on the interior of the basket. The rim finish is in a style of herringbone, with one side larger than the other. There is an up to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This is not a seed beater per Ralph Shanks.

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