Basket baby-carrier
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1920
name: label: Culture/People
content: Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
label: Possible collector
content: Dr. Géza Róheim, Non-Indian, 1891-1953
label: Possible owner
content: Dr. Géza Róheim, Non-Indian, 1891-1953
label: Possible owner
content: Dr. Werner Muensterberger (Warner Muensterberger), Non-Indian, 1913-2011
label: Donor
content: Dr. Werner Muensterberger (Warner Muensterberger), Non-Indian, 1913-2011
notes: label: Collection History
content: Probably collected in 1930 by Hungarian anthropologist and psychoanalyst Géza Róheim (1891-1953), who briefly conducted fieldwork among the Quechan as part of a cross-cultural psychoanalytic study; probably inherited or found among Róheim's effects by Dr. Werner Muensterberger (1913-2011), a psychoanalyst, art collector, and close friend and colleague; donated to MAI by Dr. Werner Muensterberger in 1953.
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place: label: Place
content: Arizona; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
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: 22/2457
label: Barcode
content: 222457.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Transportation Items: Baby carriers
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Basket baby-carrier
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, vegetal fiber, bark, cotton cloth, glass bead/beads, thread, shell/shells, mescal beans, metal items
label: Techniques
content: Carved, tied, wicker-plaited, shredded, wrapped, loom beadwork, strung