Very old hemispherical basket. Tag: "Yuki". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket cooking pot/ parcher. The basket has food residue, burns and the wefts are worn away at the base. The basket start is probably twined. The coil foundation is rod and splints. The background wefts are peeled redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is horizontal bands, one to two coils wide, some with breaks. The basket has many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is missing, two back stitches remain. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed, with a few bound under. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has many split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a primarily 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:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 39.7 centimeters and height 10.8 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Parching basket; twined. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud wood (Cercis occidentalis).Red pattern is Redbud bark.