Openwork twined basket with hoop bound around its border. "It is old fashioned Yuki way to put hoop around border." Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork twined shallow basket. Used, with wear. The start is a cross-warped twined start. The warp foundation is primarily unpeeled shoot rods. The background wefts are unknown and the design wefts are unpeeled redbud. The designs are two horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. A reinforcing rod is twined on to the exterior of the basket. The rim is clipped. The basket has an exterior work face, a rightward work direction, and an up 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:
Wailaki and Yuki
Maker or artist:
Lizzie Sam
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 10 centimeters and diameter 20 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.70. uncil opetc Says it is oldfashioned Yuki way to put hoop around border." Photo: 15-8665. Published: AAE XXIV, 9, Pl 126 e. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88.