Basket

Museum number:
1-26734
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010026734
Accession number:
Acc.618
Object count:
1
Description:
Man's openwork carrying basket of hazel twigs; in poor condition. Tag: "Yuki" on one side "# lost". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork conical twined carrying basket, in poor condition. Used with signs of wear. Starting knot is missing. Hazel warps and wefts. Denim or canvas cloth carrying straps and a muslin strip and native fiber wrapped around the rim. The rim is bent over to the interior and woven back in. The warps are single all the way up to four. The warps are primarily parallel. The basket is plain twined. The basket has an exterior workface; the work direction is difficult to see but was probably to the right, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. Coast Yuki baskets and culture are distinct from Yuki interior baskets.
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Westport, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Westport
Culture or time period:
Coast Yuki
Collector:
Edward W. Gifford
Collection date:
July 1926
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1926
Context of use:
Carrying basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Published: Anthropos 34:345, 347.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-26734, described as Man's openwork carrying basket of hazel twigs; in poor condition. Tag: "Yuki" on one side "# lost". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork conical twined carrying basket, in poor condition. Used with signs of wear. Starting knot is missing. Hazel warps and wefts. Denim or canvas cloth carrying straps and a muslin strip and native fiber wrapped around the rim. The rim is bent over to the interior and woven back in. The warps are single all the way up to four. The warps are primarily parallel. The basket is plain twined. The basket has an exterior workface; the work direction is difficult to see but was probably to the right, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. Coast Yuki baskets and culture are distinct from Yuki interior baskets.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-26734, described as Man's openwork carrying basket of hazel twigs; in poor condition. Tag: "Yuki" on one side "# lost". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork conical twined carrying basket, in poor condition. Used with signs of wear. Starting knot is missing. Hazel warps and wefts. Denim or canvas cloth carrying straps and a muslin strip and native fiber wrapped around the rim. The rim is bent over to the interior and woven back in. The warps are single all the way up to four. The warps are primarily parallel. The basket is plain twined. The basket has an exterior workface; the work direction is difficult to see but was probably to the right, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. Coast Yuki baskets and culture are distinct from Yuki interior baskets.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-26734, described as Man's openwork carrying basket of hazel twigs; in poor condition. Tag: "Yuki" on one side "# lost". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork conical twined carrying basket, in poor condition. Used with signs of wear. Starting knot is missing. Hazel warps and wefts. Denim or canvas cloth carrying straps and a muslin strip and native fiber wrapped around the rim. The rim is bent over to the interior and woven back in. The warps are single all the way up to four. The warps are primarily parallel. The basket is plain twined. The basket has an exterior workface; the work direction is difficult to see but was probably to the right, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. Coast Yuki baskets and culture are distinct from Yuki interior baskets.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-26734, described as Man's openwork carrying basket of hazel twigs; in poor condition. Tag: "Yuki" on one side "# lost". Second tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Openwork conical twined carrying basket, in poor condition. Used with signs of wear. Starting knot is missing. Hazel warps and wefts. Denim or canvas cloth carrying straps and a muslin strip and native fiber wrapped around the rim. The rim is bent over to the interior and woven back in. The warps are single all the way up to four. The warps are primarily parallel. The basket is plain twined. The basket has an exterior workface; the work direction is difficult to see but was probably to the right, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. Coast Yuki baskets and culture are distinct from Yuki interior baskets.

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