Old hemispherical. akmol = to parch; yocum = basket. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled basket parcher. The basket has food residue and burns. The basket has a twined start. It has a repair at the bottom has a splint wrapped in it. The coil foundation is rod and splints. The background wefts are peeled redbud, and the weft designs are in unpeeled redbud. The design is horizontal bands with breaks. After the starting knot there are two coil rows that have unpeeled redbud wefts. The basket has many random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped. The coil ending was cut off. The weft fag ends are mostly tucked, with some clipped. The weft moving ends are sometimes concealed, sometimes tucked. The workface has a few split stitches; the back face has a majority of split stitches. The basket has an exterior workface, with a rightward work direction, and primarily a down 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:
Yuki
Maker or artist:
Julia Hunter
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:
height 12 centimeters and diameter 42.4 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes, p. 23: yucum [basket] akmol = to parch". Photo: 15-4977. Published: AAE XXIV 9 Pl. 123 c. 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. Mended with Redbud wood.