Cradle Or Cradle "Mat"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Josiah Curtis
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Josiah Curtis
notes: label: Notes
content: THERE ARE TWO CATALOGUE CARDS IN THE FILE UNDER THIS NUMBER. THE OLDER OF THE TWO CARDS SAYS: "CRADLE, PUEBLO, COLLECTOR DR. JOSIAH CURTIS, DEPOSIT, 1908. A SIMPLE CRUDE ONE, MADE OF ONE BENT STICK WITH SOME BINDINGS ACROSS." A NOTE ADDED LATER TO THIS CARD SAYS: "IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER A SPECIMEN MEETING THESE DESCRIPTIONS EXISTS, BECAUSE ANOTHER ONE WITH THE NUMBER WAS FOUND - REFER TO DUPLICATE NUMBER CARD FOLLOWING. - R. ELDER". THE "DUPLICATE" CARD WAS MADE IN 1952 BY ROBERT ELDER, WHO ALSO FILLED IN THE PREVIOUSLY BLANK LINE IN LEDGER BOOK FOR THIS OBJECT AT THE SAME TIME. THIS INFORMATION IS FROM SECOND CARD: "AUG. 1952, WHEN DR. WM. WALLACE WAS STUDYING THE MOHAVE COLLECTION, A SPECIMEN WITH THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION WAS FOUND WHICH APPEARS TO BE TYPICAL MOHAVE, THERE WAS NO ENTRY AT ALL IN THE CATALOG BOOK. R. ELDER. COLLECTOR DATA CAME FROM A TAG ON THE SPECIMEN ONLY. FOUR BUNDLES OF COARSELY SHREDDED BARK, WRAPPED AT PLACES WITH STRIPS OF WHITE CLOTH, ARE BENT INTO A "U" SHAPE AND BOUND TOGETHER INTO A FLAT MAT WITH THE SAME CLOTH. THE ENDS OF THE BUNDLES HANG LOOSELY FROM THE UPPER SOLID PART. THIS WAS NORMALLY PLACED ON THE FLAT, BENT STICK FRAME OF THE CRADLE.--R. ELDER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mohave (Mojave) (?)
label: Culture
content: Pueblo (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00057
label: USNM Number
content: E202800-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle