Old plain twined plate form basket. Four rows closely twined at rim, crudely sewn over later; a gap in the edge was repaired by crude coiling. Weft ends turned to form additional warps, or parallel existing warps. Openwork, flat. Tag: "Wailki". Per Ralph Shanks: Twined openwork basket bowl. Crossed warp start, perpendicular. Peeled shoots warps and wefts, with a different type of unpeeled shoot repairs. Starting at the starting knot: there is plain twining over two warps for three rows, followed by plain twining over one or two warps, at the rim there are three closer spaced plain twined rows. The rim is closely trimmed. The warps are primarily parallel, and new warps are tightly bound to old warps. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction and an up to the right slant of weft twist. The basket does not undulate. The is a burn at the rim, perhaps resulting in the repair at the rim.
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:
Plate baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: "15-6633" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 60" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp and weft are hazel.