Plaited in checkboard pattern of dark blue and white wool. Some areas faded.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
April 1904
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds) and Plaited weaving
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For cradle for girl.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 372 centimeters and width 4.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #109: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 11, 1967–May 11, 1967), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)