Cradle Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUSTRATED IN MASON'S CRADLES OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES, USNM AR, 1887, FIG.9, P.170. ALSO IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG.209, P.518."
label: Notes
content: There is a doll in the cradle. Has original Peale # label. Peale catalogue entry on this artifact calls it: "Model of cradle made by the natives of Oregon after the fashion of the natives living east of the Rocky mountains."
label: Notes
content: Cradle (model or toy) is made by sewing buckskin onto wooden board. Buckskin fringe at top wider part of cradle. "Baby" is wrapped in two different types of cloth, and is held in place by laced buckskin pocket. Over its head, red and white beads are sewn onto buckskin headdress, in a checkered pattern. Eyes, nose and mouth are also beads. Off left side of headdress come some vegetal fibers which are partially wound with wire and are threaded with beads.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jul 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, Oregon Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2575-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle Model / Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 41 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 19.5 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 10 cm