Very old hemispherical parching basket with mended bottom. Tag: "Yuki". Per Ralph Shanks: Broad coiled bowl, in the shape of parching basket. There is food debris, stains, and some burns on the interior. The basket has had the base replaced with a fragment of another coiled basket. The repair has a tight spiral start. The coil foundation includes peeled shoot rod and splints. The weft designs are in unpeeled redbud and the design background is in peeled redbud. The wefts on the base are a peeled shoot, possibly older redbud. The design includes three horizontal bands of unpeeled redbud. There are a few random rectangles. The rim is plain wrapped, and missing in several areas. The rim coil ending is missing. The weft fag ends are bound under with some clipped; the weft moving ends are concealed. Less than 30% of the wefts are split on the interior, less than 10% are split on the exterior. The wefts are non-interlocking. The basket has an exterior workface. It has a rightward work direction and 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
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowl baskets and Coiled weaving
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Parching basket
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 45 centimeters and height 13.7 centimeters
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett "field notes: p. 12. yoncum flat" Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Cat. 1 Page 88.