Open plate form basket. Very fragile, quite worn, breaks in several places. Plain weave, close at start, then open weave (3 rows at the top more closely woven than most of basket). Tag: "1196". Tag "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring openwork plain twined basket, used. Crossed warp start. The warps and wefts are willow or some other peeled shoot. The plain twining is over multiple warps for the first inch. The warps are primarily parallel. The last three weft rows are closely spaced. The rim is trimmed. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and an up 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:
Wailaki
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett field notes, p. 70: "peke = Wailaki name ol opetc = Yuki name