Cradle board

Museum number:
2-4893
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
78 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradleboards
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Context of use:
For transporting and securing babies.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 112 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #11: Children's Hospital, Orinda (September 13, 1962–September 17, 1962), S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965), S1972-1973 #79: Sonoma State University (April 26, 1973–May 31, 1973), and S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cradle board, accession number 2-4893, described as 2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cradle board, accession number 2-4893, described as 2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cradle board, accession number 2-4893, described as 2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle board, accession number 2-4893, described as 2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle board, accession number 2-4893, described as 2 backboards with brass carpet tacks; hood fully beaded with multicolor abstract, floral and geometric designs, half on blue, half on red ground. Partial leather strap in back; commercial cotton cloth lining; buckskin laces.

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