Very old large hemispherical parching basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled parching basket. The basket has food debris. The basket start is twined. The warps are rod and splint. The basket has peeled redbud background wefts and unpeeled redbud design wefts. The design is four horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud as well as many random unpeeled redbud rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped; the rim coil ending is missing. The basket has an exterior workface. There are some split stitches on the backface. The weft fag ends are primarily bound under and the moving ends are difficult to see but are either bound under or concealed. The basket has a rightward work direction and a down to the right slant of weft twist. Samuel Barrett's informants say this basket is Wailaki.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers), Coiled weaving, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 45.2 centimeters and 13 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 32. Same as 1086 [11931] Made by Wailaki". Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88. Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood (Cornus florida), weft is Redbud (Cercis occidentalis) wood. Red pattern is Redbud.