Basket for meal. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Flaring coiled basket bowl, used, with food residue, apparently used for sifting meal. The wefts are closely spaced. The start is knotted and twined. The coil foundation is a mix of splints and rods. The wefts are peeled and unpeeled redbud, and possibly another peeled shoot. The rim is plain wrapped with three herringbone stitches at the ending. The designs are near the upper ⅓ of the basket where there are one coil wide horizontal bands with breaks in them, as well as random rectangles. The basket has an exterior workface, a rightward work direction, and the majority of wefts have a down to the right slant of weft twist. The weft fag ends are primarily concealed. The weft moving ends are primarily concealed. The weft stitches are not often split on either face.
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:
Yuki
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 16, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coiled weaving, Mush basket bowl, and Twined weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
For meal.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 30 centimeters and height 10.2 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 91. Per Ruth Merrill: Acorn meal basket; coiled. Warp is Dogwood, weft is Redbud sapwood. Red pattern is Redbud bark.