Very old large hemispherical basket with crossing pattern of triangles. Bottom gone. Two tags "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Globular coiled basket bowl, formerly used for cooking acorn soup but repurposed into mortar hopper after base was lost. Food residue and wear marks are present on the interior. The start is missing. The coil foundation is three peeled shoot rods. The wefts are peeled redbud background with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is five elements made up of diagonal stacks of upward and downward pointing triangles. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped, and the rim ending is missing. The weft fag ends and weft moving ends are primarily concealed. There are very few split wefts on the exterior and interior. The basket has an exterior workface and a rightward work direction with down to the right slant of weft twist. Purposefully made Yuki mortar hoppers are twined.
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, Mortar baskets (baskets by function), Mortar baskets (food processing), and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used this to pound meal in since hole came in bottom.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 18.3 centimeters and diameter 47.5 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 99: aakmo'l (hot soup) Bottom gone. She has long used this to pound meal in since hole came in bottom." Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 P 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud