Basket. Two tags: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled flaring basket bowl, in the shape of a Yuki cooking pot, with wear in the interior and residue from being cooked in. The basket has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation is one rod and splints of peeled shoots. The wefts are peeled redbud with unpeeled redbud designs. The design at the base includes two concentric horizontal bands with one break in each that lines up. The design on the sides of the basket is three sets of two parallel horizontal bands, with four downward steps. There are random rectangles, some forming small designs. The rim is plain wrapped and the coil ending is blunt with four diagonal back-stitches. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some bound under. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The exterior has below 5% split stitches. The interior of the basket has below 50% split stitches. The basket has an exterior work-face with a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Yuki
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 16, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
For meal.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 44.4 centimeters and height 14.8 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4977. Published: AAE XXIV 9, pl 123 f. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) wood. Red pattern is Redbud.