Flat parcher basket. Very worn and grimy from usage; several breaks. Coiled. Red designs: 2 types of zigzag going up to the left; also 2 stacks of triangles balanced on the apex of the one below. 3 red rows between rim and design area. Three tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket, used, appears to be a cooking basket, saturated with food debris. The start is a tight spiral. The coil foundation is a mixture of rods and splints. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud. The design is diagonal zigzags, triangles, with a solid band below the rim. There are random rectangle designs throughout the basket. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending has at least 1 5/8th inch of back stitches. There is one rectangle/tick at the rim. The basket has a rightward work direction and an exterior workface. The weft twist is variable, with split stitches on the back face. The weft fag ends are primarily clipped, with some tucked. The moving ends are concealed.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Wailaki, Round Valley (Barrett: Yuki, not Wailaki make)
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Parcher basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters and diameter 50 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 89" Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud wood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.