Cradle

Museum number:
1-20852
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Alternate number:
108 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Made of basketry. With sunshade. Frame and bed piece made of willow sticks covered with leather. Decorated with glass beads.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lassen County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lassen
Culture or time period:
Northern Paiute
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1885-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds)
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1916
Context of use:
Carrying cradle.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 29 inches and length 10 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-20852, described as Made of basketry. With sunshade. Frame and bed piece made of willow sticks covered with leather. Decorated with glass beads.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Cradle, accession number 1-20852, described as Made of basketry. With sunshade. Frame and bed piece made of willow sticks covered with leather. Decorated with glass beads.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle, accession number 1-20852, described as Made of basketry. With sunshade. Frame and bed piece made of willow sticks covered with leather. Decorated with glass beads.

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