Tray basket, dirty and worn from use. Coiled. Third row from rim done in red; dotted rows at 4 and 5 cm from top; 8 cm from rim is a row part red, then dotted; 2 more red rows at 12 and 13 cm from edge. One tag: "Wailaki att." Two Tags: "Wailaki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket bowl, with food debris. Tight spiral start, overstitched. The coil foundation is splints only. The wefts are peeled redbud and the design is unpeeled redbud. The weft fag ends are bound under. The moving ends are trimmed with some concealed. The stitches are non-interlocking. There are some split stitches on the work face and approximately 50% split stitches on the back face. The rim is plain wrapped, with a blunt coil ending. The workface is on the exterior, the work direction is to the right. The slant of weft twist is down to the right. The characteristics of the basket do not rule out either a Yuki or Wailaki maker.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Wailaki and Yuki
Collector:
Captain Jim and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 20, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket trays, Coiled weaving, and Trays
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Tray basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 11 centimeters and diameter 39.5 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.