Coated with grime from use; rim weft frayed, one split. Coiled, somewhat globular. 2 red horizontal rows around middle. Tag: "Wailaki att.". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl, used. Flaring start. Peeled shoot coil foundation, with three rods and possible splints. The wefts are peeled redbud and unpeeled redbud designs. The basket has two horizontal rows of unpeeled redbud at the middle as well as in a few random wefts in two places on the main body, as well as in some places at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction with and a down to the right slant of weft twist. The rim coil ending is tapered. The workface is on the exterior. The weft fag ends are bound under. Barrett states that this is Yuki, and Shanks says this could be Yuki or Wailaki.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Hulls Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Hulls Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
Dock and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 13 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 88." Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) wood. Red pattern is Redbud.