Cradle and sunshade
- Museum number:
- 1-148884a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2101148884a@2cb
- Accession number:
- Acc.1955
- Description:
- a) Twined openwork basketry cradle; b) Basketry sunshade with black spot at center. Twined. Hazel shoot warp and weft. Decoration of Dentalium and Glycimeris shells, pine nut and glass beads.
- Donor:
- Kathleen Morehouse
- Collection place:
- Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Del Norte; Crescent City
- Culture or time period:
- Klamath River Tribes
- Collector:
- Emma Lang Morehouse and Herbert Harrison Morehouse
- Collection date:
- 1904
- Taxon:
- Dentaliidae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving
- Function:
- 6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Context of use:
- Child care and enculturation.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- a)— length 72 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1972-1973 #2: unknown borrower (July 13, 1972–July 18, 1972)
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