Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1875 to 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM THE ACCESSION FILE, "LIST OF ARTICLES COLLECTED FROM THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA, IN 1875 AND 1876, BY STEPHEN POWERS": "19040, 'SAKKEOBUH,' BABY BASKET MADE OF WILLOW WORK, IN WHICH THE INFANT IS SECURELY FASTENED, SO THAT IT CAN BE CARRIED ON THE MOTHER'S BACK, OR LEANED UP AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. THIS IS NOT AT ALL A CRADLE, AS IT IS NEVER ROCKED." ... PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE ABOVE IS ON THE PART OF THE LIST UNDER THE SUBHEADING OF "PIUTES, PYRAMID LAKE, NEVADA." FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1887, FIG. 20, P. 188 ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1894; FIG. 218; P. 528." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MODEL OF ... [BABY] CRADLE.--MADE OF BENT TWIGS WITH BUCKSKIN COVERING; HOOD MADE OF TWIGS WITH BUCKSKIN EDGE. LENGTH 10 INCHES. WIDTH 4 1/2 INCHES. COYUWE PAI-UTES, PYRAMID LAKE, NEVADA, 1875. 19,040. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Washoe County / Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E19040-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.4 cm