Cradle cover

Museum number:
2-22
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020000022
Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Cradle cover; buckskin lined with cloth; decorated with quill work, feathers, multicolored beadwork, sinew-sewn; feathers.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds)
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Used with two prong cradleboard frame.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 110 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #79: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (March 18, 1965–August 6, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle cover, accession number 2-22, described as Cradle cover; buckskin lined with cloth; decorated with quill work, feathers, multicolored beadwork, sinew-sewn; feathers.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle cover, accession number 2-22, described as Cradle cover; buckskin lined with cloth; decorated with quill work, feathers, multicolored beadwork, sinew-sewn; feathers.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle cover, accession number 2-22, described as Cradle cover; buckskin lined with cloth; decorated with quill work, feathers, multicolored beadwork, sinew-sewn; feathers.

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