Large hemispherical basket used for parching. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad shallow coiled bowl, in the shape of parching basket. There is food debris present. The basket has a twined start. The coil foundation includes peeled shoot rods and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The design includes one plain horizontal band at the base followed by two horizontal bands of diamond/ spinning top shaped designs that connect between the bands. There are random rectangles visible on the exterior. The rim is plain wrapped. The design continues to the rim. The rim coil ending has three stitches missing. The weft fag ends are concealed or clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed and some are bound under. About 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and a down 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:
Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used for parching.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 43.3 centimeters and height 11.6 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p.67: yon cum Used for parching". Photo: 15-4975. Published: AAE XXIV 9 Pl 122 d. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 92. Per Ruth Merrill: Storage basket; coiled. Warp is Redbud, weft is Redbud. Red pattern is Redbud bark.