Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: This cradle was made and used by Mary Buffalo, according to her granddaughter Betty Nixon. Mrs. Nixon based this identification on recognizing the cradle in a photograph of her grandmother, together with her knowledge that Mary Buffalo was a cradle maker. The photo is in the collection of the University of Oklahoma Western History Library, Phillips Collection #1552. The identification that this is the same cradle was confirmed by Barbara Hail, author of Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, 2000.
label: Notes
content: Cradleboard. Wooden lattice frame incised and painted, ornamented with metal tacks, fully beaded hide cover. Lazy stitch stitch background with geometric motifs in overlay. Beaded commercial hide panel attached above hood, two soft hide tabs at bottom. See 357797 43.5" (110 cm). (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: Notes
content: Note: a quilled armband was found with this cradle during the inventory of the collections, and has been left as this catalogue number for now.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma (not certain), 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: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358404-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle / Armband