Large cylindrical cooking basket with hoop. White 2-faced overlay design, stepped up and down, a portion repeated above. Design area defined by double dotted lines 15 cm long. 3- strand twining 3.5 cm radius from start, also the three top rows. Fourth row from rim is peeled shoots, lattice twined to basket. Grimy and worn from Tag: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined cooking basket, used. Crossed warp start, not a traditional wrapped Northwest California style starting knot, it has four plain twined rows on the exterior and interior, probably over four warps. See 1-2543 and 1-97844 for a similar start. The warp material is a peeled shoot, possibly willow; the wefts are conifer root with an overlay design in beargrass. Starting at the starting knot there is 1 inch of three strand twining, followed by plain twining up to a single row of lattice twining over one large rod, followed by three to four rows of three strand twining. The rim is trimmed with no warp sticks protruding at the non broken areas of the rim. The basket somewhat undulates. The work direction is to the right, with an exterior workface and up to the right slant of weft twist. The overlay is irregularly double-sided, with the main design on the exterior.
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:
Basketry (object genre), Mush boiling basket, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Cooking basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 25 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 97: "tcesem lawe tcesem [refers to] white material. Wailaki" Photo: "15-8625" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 59
Loans:
S1968-1969 #85: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (February 26, 1969–February 26, 1969) and S1973-1974 #53: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Lawrence E. Dawson (January 22, 1974–January 26, 1974)