Per Ralph Shanks and Justin Underhill: 3 tags with cat #, 1 with Wailaki globular hanging(?) basket with cross warp start that has 4 warp rows on each side, stacked perpendicularly and wrapped diagonally in one direction. The warp and weft sticks are peeled shoots, basket is plain twined over 2 to 4 warp rows. At the rim there are 3 more closely spaced rows of plain twining. Warps are closely trimmed. A 2-ply piece of twine is tied around the weft rows of the rim, possibly intended to hang the basket. Uneven surface to the basket. Work direction is rightward, slant of weft twist is up and to the right. On interior of basket there are numerous warp sticks protruding. The basket appears to have been used. Globose openwork basket. In good condition. Twill twining; 3 rows of close twining at rim; a 2-ply fiber string (aboriginal?) tied onto rim as a handle.
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:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 16 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 86: "tcumetc Yuki tcaino Wailaki Wailaki basket" Photo: "15-6633" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are Hazel.