Small and new. Per Ralph Shanks. Tag says "Yuki". Seed beater basket, plain-twined. Looks traditional, probably not made for sale. Basket has a cross-warp starting knot. The handle and bowl are made of redbud shoots. Rim is open-wrapped with some warps extending beyond the rim of the bowl. Handle is attached to the bowl by extending some of the warps into the center of the bowl and then bending them back into the handle. Some of the handle warps have been integrated into the bowl. Slant of weft twist is up and to the right with an exterior work face, work direction is uncertain. The handle is wrapped to a limited degree with cordage. There are no observed hairs and the attribution is a Yuki seed beater. The basket has designs made of unpeeled rebbud. There is a circular design at the starting not and a circular band about halfway through the bowl.
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 Sam
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Seed beaters, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.2 Gathering
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 18 centimeters and length 40 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 71: ...welk...This is Yuki kind. Wailaki kind is made without splitting the sticks & made nicely. Woven like 1196". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Seed basket; twined. Warp and weft are Willow (Salix) and grape.