Plate form coiled sifting basket. Tags: "no. Lost Yuki", "# Lost" and "1-11964 Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Wide flaring coiled bowl, in the shape of a sifting or cooking basket. It has no staining or residue. The start is a spiral start. The warp is splints with a peeled shoot rod. The weft material is redbud, both peeled and unpeeled, with another possible redbud that is lighter and browner than other unpeeled redbud. The design includes the start which is unpeeled for 1 1/2 inches, three bands of three horizontal lines with one break in each band at the same point. There are also random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; with the rim coil ending missing about five wefts. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some concealed; the weft moving ends are concealed. 50% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 30% 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
Maker or artist:
Lizzie Chicken
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Sifting basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 47: winumo". Remarks: During a complete inventory & relocation of the Yuki basket collection this basket was found without a number. Based on a list of missing baskets generated by the inventory the number (1-11964) was reassigned by Ira Jacknis on" May 24, 1994. "Missing - 27 Oct 93" "Found 5/24/94