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Hearst Museum object titled Cooking basket, accession number 1-11961, described as Hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide- mouthed coiled basket bowl, the same shape and size as a typical Yuki cooking bowl. It has food residue in it but no evidence of cooking, it could have been used as a sifter. The basket has a pinhole start. The coil foundation is mixed rods and splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is six horizontal bands with varying widths, a few with open and closed rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending is broken, but several herringbone stitches are left. The weft fag ends are a mixture of clipped and concealed. The weft moving ends are concealed. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has up to 80% split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and a primarily down to the right slant of weft twist.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15771, described as Shawl, “Kussaba Chuddah.” Silk or inner fleece of goat. Herringbone weave, fringed. Gray.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile sample, accession number 2-62606a-d, described as 4 swatches sewn together; linen, plain weave, printed, green and natural, yellow and brown, green and blue, red and orange, geometric motives, “Tessera”