Cylindrical twined cooking basket with hoop at border. White two-faced overlay, 3 horizontal stripes, top band of horizontal triangles. 3-strand twining 3.5 cm radius from start; also 2 top rows. The third and fourth rows from rim are lattice-twined. Dirty from usage, one "bite" out of rim. "Cnecs". per catalog card. Tag: "1-12098a", two tags have "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking pot, used. The basket has a crossed warp starting knot, slightly oval, with the warps at a non-perpendicular angle. The weft is confer root with an overlay of beargrass, and peeled shoot warps. The basket has a rightward work direction with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket mildly undulates. The fact the basket is twined and has lattice twining at the rim reinforces the claim that this is a Wailaki cooking pot, as Yuki made coiled cooking baskets.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Cooking baskets, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 31 centimeters and height 20 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-6634" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 33: cnecs" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Hazel, weft is pine 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)