Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS CONSISTS OF AN IRONING BOARD SHAPED PIECE OF WOOD; AT THE TOP THERE IS A RECTANGULAR PIECE OF BUCKSKIN ENTIRELY COVERED WITH BEADWORK IN GEOMETRIC DESIGN. THE TOP OF THIS HAS ATTACHED A BUCKSKIN FRINGE. ALONG THE BODY OF THE CRADLE ARE THREE PAIRS OF TRIANGULAR SHAPED PIECES OF DRESSED SKIN COVERED WITH BEADING FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING THE CHILD IN THE CRADLE. THE BOTTOM TIP OF THE CRADLE IS ALSO DECORATED WITH A SECTION OF BEADED DRESSED SKIN. LOANED TO SOBEPA S.A., BELGIUM, 11-12-1974. RET. 2-18-1975." CRADLE WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS "NEZ PERCE, IDAHO", HOWEVER IT IS STYLISTICALLY CLASSIC CROW TYPE AND SO TRIBE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO CROW. - CHANGE PER C. GREENE 6-30-1997
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 96 in Broughton, Deanna Tidwell. Hide, Wood, and Willow : Cradles of the Great Plains Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Crow (Apsaalooke)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358854-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle