Very old plate form parching basket with bottom mended. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad flaring basket, used as a parcher and possibly as a cooking pot, with residue from food, wefts worn down to the foundation rods, and the interior is blackened with use. The basket has a coiled start, and is difficult to see. The coil foundation is rods and splints of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is alternating peeled and unpeeled redbud, with a break that lines up. There are some random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped with some concealed. The weft moving ends are difficult to see, some are concealed. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has over 50% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a 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
Maker or artist:
Lizzie Chicken
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
Context of use:
Parching basket
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 49.5 centimeters and height 12.9 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 48: yocum". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) wood. Red pattern is Redbud.