Small, flat; made of wooden rods and without any head covering.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
South Central California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Western Mono
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds)
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
The small cradle without any head covering was used for the first ten days after birth, at the end of which period the child was transferred to the hooded cradle, and the unhooded cradle was never used later by the same child.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-5003. Published: B.A.E.B. 78 Pl 40 Milw Publ Mus Bul v 2, Pl. 75. Remarks: "The woman from whom this cradle was purchased says that it is the cradle first used by her eldest son, she having kept it now eleven years.