Backboard is a tapered, rectangular, commercially cut board stained and grooved at the wide end. Grooves filled with red pigment and designs are outlined with brass upholstery tacks. Wood hoop covered with multicolored glass trade beads on white ground, trade bead ornaments trimmed with brass trade bells.
Donor:
Francis C. Hutchens and Mrs. Francis C. Hutchens
Collection place:
Nebraska
Verbatim coll. place:
Nebraska
Culture or time period:
Eastern Woodland tribes
Collector:
Frank B. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradleboards
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1967
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 98 centimeters
Comment:
Collected in Nebraska from Indians who were being relocated by the government.