Cradle Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Dec 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ANCIENT SHAPE. PORTION OF COLLECTION OF 1892." See also cradle Catalogue No. 358414, which is similar in style to this cradle, but is catalogued as possibly Iroquois.
label: Notes
content: Miniature cradle. Frame of solid piece of milled lumber, curved at lower end, upper end pierced, incised and painted in geometric patterns. Muslin cover painted yellow, blue and green with pendant thongs. Miniature bow case and quiver of commercial hide tied to cover. Doll fully dressed as adult male. Possibly made for Mooney as a model. 26" (66 cm). Records: Ancient shape. Portion of collection of 1892. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028841
label: USNM Number
content: E169069-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle Model / Doll / Quiver Model /Bowcase Model