Burden basket, in good condition. Hoop lashed to rim with buckskin, broken in 2 places. Twined, with knotted strap. White two-faced overlay designs; dotted stripe just below rim; then diamond outlines connected in horizontal band. Lowest design is a dotted stripe with zig-zag horizontal line beneath. The point, the very start of basket, begins with rawhide weft, over the stick warp. Three-strand twining. 2 tags both say 'Wailaki' Per Ralph Shanks: Classic Wailaki burden basket, used, made out of conifer root weft, possibly pine root with bear grass overlay. Overlay is irregular sided, not two-faced as indicated above. Peeled shoots used for warp sticks. Starting knot is common for the Wilaki, with wefts made of rawhide or buckskin. Beginning at starting knot there are alternating bands of 3 strand and plain twining weft rows for 3.5 inches, followed by plain twining until 1 weft row below rim. The uppermost weft row is 3 strand twining. Trimmed rim finish with the vast majority of warp sticks rising as much as .25 inches above the rim. At the rim a reinforcing rod is lashed to the basket with buckskin using the typical wailaki technique, the rod is broken in 2 places. There is a carrying strap attached to the rim and the reinforcing rod. The weft stitches are up and to the right and the work direction is up and to the right with an exterior work face. Some undulation is present.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Hulls Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake; Hulls Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki
Collector:
Dock and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 19, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Burden baskets and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Burden basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 40 centimeters and length 80 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-8621" Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 59" Per Ruth Merrill: Warp is Hazel, weft is Conifer root. White pattern is Beargrass.