Old flaring coiled basket. Well made for a Yuki basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad coiled bowl, in the shape of cooking basket. There is food debris and some burns on the interior. The basket has a coiled oval start. The basket has a three rod coil foundation. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in sedge. The design includes four sets of two intersecting diagonal bands with flags on either side, two sets of bands go to the rim, and two sets of bands meet halfway up the basket. There are filler designs at the rim between the main designs. The rim is plain wrapped. The primary design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending is decoratively backstitched for an inch and a half. The rim has a larger diameter coil than the rest of the basket. The weft fag ends are bound under, concealed and clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed. Less than 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The basket has both Yuki and Huchnom aspects. The Huchnom used sedge more commonly than the Yuki.
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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14.1 centimeters and diameter 36.3 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 66: lawe". Photo: 15-4885. Published: AAE XXIV 9 Pl 125 f. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 90. Well made for a Yuki basket.