Cradleboard cover (part)
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1790
name: label: Culture/People
content: Great Lakes
label: Collector
content: Major Andrew Foster, Non-Indian, 1768-1806
label: Previous owner
content: Major Andrew Foster, Non-Indian, 1768-1806
label: Previous owner
content: Wells and Mendip Museum
label: Previous owner
content: George Terasaki, Non-Indian
label: Seller
content: George Terasaki, Non-Indian
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected between 1790 and 1795 by British Army officer Major Andrew Foster (1768-1806) at Fort Miami or Fort Michilimackinac; inherited by his family and donated to the Wells and Mendip Museum (Wells, England) by Foster family members in 1936; removed from the collection of the Wells and Mendip Museum at an unknown date; acquired by George Terasaki (a New York art dealer) in 1965 or 1966; acquired by MAI through an exchange with George Terasaki in 1967.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Michilimackinac, Fort Miami; Cheboygan County, Saint Joseph County; Michigan; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Great Lakes
label: See related items
content: Transportation Items: Baby carriers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 24/2010
label: Barcode
content: 242010.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Transportation Items: Baby carriers
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Cradleboard cover (part)
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, metal cones, porcupine quills, deer hair, dye/dyes, hide thong/babiche
label: Techniques
content: Dyed, quill woven/loomed quillwork, strung