Large spherical coiled basket with very unusual pattern of broken lines. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled large bowl for storage or serving food. Appears to be unused. The basket has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation is mixed rod and splint. The wefts are peeled redbud background with the weft design in unpeeled redbud. The design includes an unpeeled redbud start, followed by a horizontal band of elements at the base made up of alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud lines, with a dip in them. On the side of the basket this pattern repeats in eight elements, ending four to five weft rows below the rim. There are many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped with a slightly tapered ending with one inch of diagonal backstitching. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior wefts are less than 10% split. The interior wefts are over 90% split. The basket has an exterior workface, with 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:
Baskets (containers) and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
For serving acorn soup. Baskets of this type were said by the owner to have been used only by captains for the ceremonial serving of food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 49 centimeters and height 27 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.66: til for acorn soup Captain's basket. Captain = teol". Photo: 15-4974. Published: AAE XXIV 9 Pl 120 c. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 92. Per Ruth Merrill: Storage basket; coiled. Warp is Willow, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.