Deep hemispherical coiled basket. Tag "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket cooking bowl. Some cooking stone wear and food residue is in the bottom interior. The basket has a tight spiral start with a stitch over it. The coil foundation is made up of three peeled shoot rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud designs. The design is diagonal intersecting bands of rectangles. Three are no random rectangles. The design continues to the rim, which is plain wrapped. The rim coil ending is tapered and has three diagonal backstitches. The weft fag ends are clipped, concealed, and bound under. The moving ends are concealed. The wefts are non-interlocking, 40% of the wefts are split on the interior and 20% are split on the exterior. The workface is on the exterior. The work direction is to the right with a down to the right slant of weft twist. The shape of the basket is not Yuki cooking basket shaped and there are no random rectangles, however Samuel Barrett's informants said the basket was Yuki.
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:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 31 centimeters and height 16 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 97. lawe = Yuki" Photo: 15-4976. Published: AAE XXIV, 9 Pl. 124 h. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 89. Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.