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Cradle board
Museum number:
2-4865
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004865
Alternate number:
50 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
2 backboards; hood is rawhide covered with multicolor beads in repeat maltese cross pattern. Trim of red cloth with floral design; 2 iron rings attached to thongs. Materials include glass beads, wood, commercial cotton cloth.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Capt. Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradleboards
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Context of use:
Cradleboard for doll. Toy.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 42 centimeters and length 29.5 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971.
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