Coiled, wide mouth, sloping sides. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled broad basket bowl. No evidence of use wear. The basket has a twined start. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints, with the base in all splints. The weft material is peeled and unpeeled redbud designs at the upper 1/4 and the lower 3/4 design is an unknown unpeeled material and the background is an unknown peeled material. At the start of the basket is a band of half unpeeled redbud and half unknown unpeeled material. The main design is diagonal stepped spirals. There are no clear random rectangles. The weft fag ends are clipped or bound under. The weft moving ends are concealed. The rim is plain wrapped with a few rim ticks in peeled and unpeeled redbud directly under the rim coil ending. The rim coil ending is blunt with three back stitches and is cut off at the end. The wefts are split less than 10% on the exterior and on the interior 50-60% are split. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and down to the right slant of weft twist. Based on the materials and techniques the basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki.
Donor:
Henry B. Hickey Jr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Jr.
Collection place:
Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
H. B. Hickey Sr. and Mrs. H. B. Hickey Sr.
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets, Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8.1 centimeters and diameter 28.8 centimeters