Bowl basket

Museum number:
1-12197
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1330 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.291 and Acc.294
Description:
Globose coiled basket in good condition. All over stepped diagonal lines in red and yellow-white. On bottom, solid colored rows and checked rows. One tag: "Wailaiki att." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Pinhole start slightly indented. Three rod foundation. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps. The design at the base is unusual, with three concentric bands of unpeeled redbud with alternating vertical stripes. The rim is wrapped, with a 3/8 inch tapered ending; the last few wefts are unpeeled redbud. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are split stitches on the interior.
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:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 23 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 110: Tip's people, informants. Owing to lateness, names etc were not obtained. Localities were however. Made by her. Same old woman [as 1329]." Photo: "15-6635" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is possibly willow or hazel. Welft is redbud, and red pattern is also redbud.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12197, described as Globose coiled basket in good condition. All over stepped diagonal lines in red and yellow-white. On bottom, solid colored rows and checked rows. One tag: "Wailaiki att." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Pinhole start slightly indented. Three rod foundation. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps. The design at the base is unusual, with three concentric bands of unpeeled redbud with alternating vertical stripes. The rim is wrapped, with a 3/8 inch tapered ending; the last few wefts are unpeeled redbud. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are split stitches on the interior.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12197, described as Globose coiled basket in good condition. All over stepped diagonal lines in red and yellow-white. On bottom, solid colored rows and checked rows. One tag: "Wailaiki att." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Pinhole start slightly indented. Three rod foundation. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps. The design at the base is unusual, with three concentric bands of unpeeled redbud with alternating vertical stripes. The rim is wrapped, with a 3/8 inch tapered ending; the last few wefts are unpeeled redbud. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are split stitches on the interior.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12197, described as Globose coiled basket in good condition. All over stepped diagonal lines in red and yellow-white. On bottom, solid colored rows and checked rows. One tag: "Wailaiki att." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Pinhole start slightly indented. Three rod foundation. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps. The design at the base is unusual, with three concentric bands of unpeeled redbud with alternating vertical stripes. The rim is wrapped, with a 3/8 inch tapered ending; the last few wefts are unpeeled redbud. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are split stitches on the interior.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl basket, accession number 1-12197, described as Globose coiled basket in good condition. All over stepped diagonal lines in red and yellow-white. On bottom, solid colored rows and checked rows. One tag: "Wailaiki att." Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled globular basket bowl, with no residue. Pinhole start slightly indented. Three rod foundation. Redbud wefts, both peeled and unpeeled. The overall design is diagonal steps. The design at the base is unusual, with three concentric bands of unpeeled redbud with alternating vertical stripes. The rim is wrapped, with a 3/8 inch tapered ending; the last few wefts are unpeeled redbud. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and a mixed slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are clipped and concealed; the moving ends are concealed and clipped. There are split stitches on the interior.

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