Miniature Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THIS SPECIMEN WAS ORIGINALLY LOGGED IN THE LEDGER AS "WINNEBAGO, WISCONSIN," BASED ON THE ORIGINAL EVANS TAG, BUT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY IDENTIFIED AS CHEYENNE. FROM CARD: "THE FRAME OF THE CRADLE CONSISTS OF TWO UPRIGHTS AND TWO CROSS PIECES OF WOOD SECURED BY BUCKSKIN THONGS. THE COVERING IS OF BLUE CLOTH AND IS DECORATED BY ALTERNATING ROWS OF FLAT BRASS BEADS ON ORANGE BRAID AND ROWS OF [cowrie] SHELLS. 7/1975 BEN STONE OF PHILBROOK ART MUSEUM SUGGESTED IT WAS CHEYENNE; JOHN EWERS SAYS POSSIBLY. TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION [AS PROBABLY CHEYENNE] ON BASIS OF TYPE PER CANDACE GREENE 7/1987. EVANS COLLECTION WAS LARGELY UNDOCUMENTED AND BASIS OF WINNEBAGO ATTRIBUTION UNKNOWN. HISTORY OF SPECIMEN WILL RETAIN RECORD IT WAS SO MARKED (W. MERRILL 10/19/1987). FR. PETER J. POWELL FEELS THAT STYLE OF CONSTRUCTION, ALTHOUGH ATYPICAL, IS PROBABLY CHEYENNE. ALSO, CRADLE COVER IS OF CHEYENNE CUT AND THE WOODEN FRAME HAS TWO POINTED UPRIGHTS -- A CHEYENNE CHARACTERISTIC, ALTHOUGH NOT LIMITED TO THE CHEYENNE (5/05/1989)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358417-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle