Cradleboard
date: label: Date created
content: 1850-1880
name: label: Culture/People
content: Mohawk
label: Previous owner
content: Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
label: Seller
content: Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1947 from Charles Melvin Heffner (1885-1978, a Reading, Pennsylvania, antiques dealer) using funds donated by the Viking Fund, Inc. (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.).
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Québec, New York; Canada, USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Mohawk
label: See related items
content: Transportation Items: Baby carriers
label: On View
content: NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Woodlands
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 21/441
label: Barcode
content: 210441.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Transportation Items: Baby carriers
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Cradleboard
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, paint, hide thong/babiche
label: Techniques
content: Carved, drilled, pegged, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 34 x 33.5 x 79 cm