Cooking basket

Museum number:
1-11891
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1018 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Hemispherical coiled basket of very open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, with widely spaced wefts. The basket has some food residue but no signs of cooking; it is possibly a serving bowl. The basket has a knotted start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots with some splints. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is slightly tapered with three diagonal backstitches. The rim is sliced by someone after it entered in the museum. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily bound under. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has below 20% 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:
Lucy Lou
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10.9 centimeters and diameter 32 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes: p. 9. fat = basket (Stonyford Pomo) yoncok, tuk = Yuki". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 90.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11891, described as Hemispherical coiled basket of very open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, with widely spaced wefts. The basket has some food residue but no signs of cooking; it is possibly a serving bowl. The basket has a knotted start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots with some splints. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is slightly tapered with three diagonal backstitches. The rim is sliced by someone after it entered in the museum. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily bound under. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has below 20% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11891, described as Hemispherical coiled basket of very open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, with widely spaced wefts. The basket has some food residue but no signs of cooking; it is possibly a serving bowl. The basket has a knotted start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots with some splints. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is slightly tapered with three diagonal backstitches. The rim is sliced by someone after it entered in the museum. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily bound under. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has below 20% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11891, described as Hemispherical coiled basket of very open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, with widely spaced wefts. The basket has some food residue but no signs of cooking; it is possibly a serving bowl. The basket has a knotted start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots with some splints. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is slightly tapered with three diagonal backstitches. The rim is sliced by someone after it entered in the museum. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily bound under. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has below 20% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11891, described as Hemispherical coiled basket of very open stitch. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, with widely spaced wefts. The basket has some food residue but no signs of cooking; it is possibly a serving bowl. The basket has a knotted start. The coil foundation is three rods of peeled shoots with some splints. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design is horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There is one random rectangle. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is slightly tapered with three diagonal backstitches. The rim is sliced by someone after it entered in the museum. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily bound under. The exterior has below 5% split stiches. The interior of the basket has below 20% split stiches. The basket has an exterior workface with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.

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