Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jan 1910
label: Collection Date
content: 1897
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME DOUBT AS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE ACCESSION DATA FOR LOCALITY, ACCORDING TO BILL FITZHUGH, CURATOR OF ARCTIC ETHNOLOGY, SAMI/SAAMI WERE BROUGHT OVER TO ALASKA TO TEACH THE ESKIMOS TO HERD REINDEER, THUS THESE ARTIFACTS MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED IN ALASKA. THUS THEY SHOULD BE CATALOGED AS SAMI BUT CAN BE STORED WITH MATERIAL FROM PORT CLARENCE OR NOME, ALASKA. (S. CRAWFORD, 2-1-93)
label: Notes
content: Lists filed with Accession No. 51116, which actually describe objects in Accession 51115, include a list of objects acquired at Teller Reindeer Station, Port Clarence, Alaska in 1897. One of the objects on this list is # 1255, identified as "Cradle from Lapland", which is this object. Cradle has a baby mannequin inside.
label: Notes
content: A cradle resembling this one can be seen in a photo that is part of the John Green Brady Papers, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; photo citation: Brady, John Green. 398. Laplanders, Teller, Alaska. The photo shows a group of Sami people at the Teller Reindeer Station; a cradle partially covered with a cloth is visible sitting on top of a barrel toward the left side of the image. https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3527979 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Port Clarence / Teller Reindeer Station, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sámi (Saami)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 051115
label: USNM Number
content: E260742-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle / Figure