Very old hemispherical parching basket. "Lost no.". Second tag "Yuki". Third tag "Yuki" on one side and "# lost". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl. There are no abrasions but there is residue. The basket has a tight spiral coiled start. The coil foundation is three rod peeled shoots. The wefts are probably sedge root background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design includes diagonal crossed stacked-rectangle lines. There are no random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are over 90% concealed, with some clipped. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior of the basket has a few split stiches; the interior has a majority of split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a mixed slant of weft twist. The maker was said by Samuel Barrett's informants to be the mother of a Redwood, which is Huchnom. The use of sedge root is common to the Huchnom, and Huchnom work direction is typically but not always to the left see pg. 117-118 "Indian Baskets of Central California". Based on this and Barrett's informants comment this basket is likely to be Huchnom.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Huchnom and Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Taxon:
Sequoia sempervirens
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Parching basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 38: yucum basket. Large. Made by old woman whose mortar was Redwood." Remarks: "During a complete inventory & relocation of the Yuki basket collection this basket was found without a number. Based on a list of missing baskets generated from the inventory the number (1-11952) was reassigned by Ira Jacknis on" May 24, 1994.