Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled, slightly flared, shallow basket bowl, not used but with some debris and dirt on the interior. The basket start is a tight coiled spiral. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots. The wefts are sedge root background and unpeeled redbud, and few wefts of dyed bracken fern. The main design is three vertical columns of alternating sedge and redbud. The last weft row of redbud has four to six weft stitches of black dyed bracken fern. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is blunt with three diagonal backstitches. The wefts are slightly widely spaced. The weft fag ends are clipped with some bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The weft stitches on the exterior are less than 5% split. The weft interior stitches are 35-40% split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials and techniques including the use of sedge and the rightward work direction this basket is probably Huchnom see page 117-118 of Indian Baskets of Central California by Ralph Shanks.
Donor:
Henry B. Hickey Jr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Jr.
Collection place:
North Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Huchnom and Yuki
Collector:
H. B. Hickey Sr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Sr.
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 26.8 centimeters and height 9.6 centimeters