Truncate-cone, coiled. Diagonally crossing lines of joined triangles in dark red. Tag: "Maidu". Second tag "Maidu". Third tag "128". Per Ralph Shanks: Coiled cooking basket, used. The rim is damaged, with some repairs in string. The basket has a three rod foundation, possible willow. The wefts are bulrush and sedge root. The start is a tight spiral. The basket has an exterior workface. The basket has a leftward work direction, with an up to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are concealed. The weft moving ends are bound down. The basket has a plain wrapped rim with a slightly tapered coil end. There is one design and it is diagonally crossing lines of joined triangles. The basket is from the east side of the Sacramento valley, and is from the Valley Maidu.
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:
Valley Maidu
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving and Cooking baskets
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 88" Per Ruth Merrill: Basket; coiled. Warp is Willow, weft is sedge root. Black pattern is Brake fern.