Basket sieve; coated with grime. Coiled. Designs: 2 rows of alternating red and light stitches at the top, a band of red zigzags, another 2 rows of alternate-colored stitches, and one row of red. Two tags: "Wailaki" Per Ralph Shanks: Food processing basket with flaring sides, used, with food remains. The start is tightly coiled, with no indentation. The warps are peeled shoot rods and splints. The wefts are redbud, peeled and unpeeled. The rim is plain wrapped, with the end missing. There are horizontal bands of designs, a horizontal zigzag framed above and below by checkered bands. There are about 10 Yuki-style random rectangles. The majority of the stitches are non-interlocking. Most of the stitches are not split. The fag ends and moving ends are sometimes concealed and sometimes bound under. There is a down to the right slant of weft twist and a rightward work direction, with an exterior workface. This basket could be either Wailaki or Yuki based on the style, materials, and techniques used.
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:
July 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Mortar baskets (baskets by function), and Mortar baskets (food processing)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Basket sieve.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 8 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: "For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 91" Per Ruth Merrill: Mortar basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.