Cradle

Museum number:
1-16573
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.399
Description:
Baby basket. Used. Starting to come unsewn in places. Oval shape. Open twined work. Groups of 2, 3, and 4 plain-twined rows. Sewn rim. Top wrapped with striped taffeta ribbon and pink polka-dotted white gauze. Ties and loops of buckskin and light brown cotton gauze.
Donor:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection place:
Churntown (historical), Shasta Lake, Shasta County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Shasta; Churntown
Culture or time period:
Northern Wintun and Wintu
Collector:
Thomas T. Waterman
Collection date:
November 1910
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1910
Context of use:
Baby basket.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
depth 15 centimeters, length 40 centimeters, and width 63.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "Neg. 15-6085" Remarks: "Ill. B.A.E.B. 78. Pl 35, also UCBAAE 36:1, Fig. 8.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-16573, described as Baby basket. Used. Starting to come unsewn in places. Oval shape. Open twined work. Groups of 2, 3, and 4 plain-twined rows. Sewn rim. Top wrapped with striped taffeta ribbon and pink polka-dotted white gauze. Ties and loops of buckskin and light brown cotton gauze.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-16573, described as Baby basket. Used. Starting to come unsewn in places. Oval shape. Open twined work. Groups of 2, 3, and 4 plain-twined rows. Sewn rim. Top wrapped with striped taffeta ribbon and pink polka-dotted white gauze. Ties and loops of buckskin and light brown cotton gauze.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-16573, described as Baby basket. Used. Starting to come unsewn in places. Oval shape. Open twined work. Groups of 2, 3, and 4 plain-twined rows. Sewn rim. Top wrapped with striped taffeta ribbon and pink polka-dotted white gauze. Ties and loops of buckskin and light brown cotton gauze.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-16573, described as Baby basket. Used. Starting to come unsewn in places. Oval shape. Open twined work. Groups of 2, 3, and 4 plain-twined rows. Sewn rim. Top wrapped with striped taffeta ribbon and pink polka-dotted white gauze. Ties and loops of buckskin and light brown cotton gauze.

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