Old cylindrical cooking basket with hoop at border. Rim a little flared, 1-faced overlay, white, 3 bands of parallel diagonal lines. Flat bottom, first 3 cm radius from start in 3-strand twining, the next 3 cm radius each row alternates, 1 plain twining, then one 3-strand twining. Top row plain twining, second row 3-strand twining, third row peeled shoots held on by lattice twining. Worn and grimy from use. Two tags "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, with the warp sticks in a non-Northwest California style. Peeled shoot warps, with conifer root wefts and a beargrass overlay. There are a few weft rows that are redder in color. The rim is trimmed, flush, with no warp sticks extending beyond the rim. The basket slightly undulates. The overlay is one-sided, on the exterior workface. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up 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:
Wailaki
Maker or artist:
Sally Ward
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cooking baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 55: "tunstantc" Photo: "15-8623" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is hazel, weft is alder root. White pattern is Beargrass.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #85: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 26, 1969–February 26, 1969) and S1973-1974 #53: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (January 22, 1974–January 26, 1974)