Transport Cradle Basketry
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Aug 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John W. Hudson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MATERIAL, PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA. LABEL: "CRADLE OF THE CANEL INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA). THE CRADLE IS IN THE FORM OF A SCOOP, THE UPPER OR OUTER BORDER BEING ATTACHED TO A HOOP, WHICH HOLDS THE RODS IN PLACE AND ALSO AFFORDS PROTECTION TO THE INFANT'S HEAD. THE RODS ARE HELD TOGETHER BY MEANS OF BROWN TWINE BRAIDED ON BY A DOUBLE ROW OF HALF HITCHES INTERLOCKING, SHOWING SINGLE ON THE OUTSIDE AND DOUBLE ON THE INSIDE. ORNAMENTATION, BANDS OF LARGE BEADS. THE HEAD BAND IS MADE OF BEADWORK IN BLUE AND AMBER. DIAM 7". LOAN SITES/GENERATIONS 07 09 87. LOAN RETURNED APR 8 1988." FROM CARD: "203,527 A. CARRYING CRADLE OF THE CANEL INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED SHOOTS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINDSIANA). THE STEMS ARE HELD IN PLACE BY COTTON STRING IN FALSE BRAID, CALLED TSAWAM. CARRYING BAND, OF THE SAME MATERIAL, HEAVILY BEADED. DECORATION IN COLORED BEADS. THE POMO INDIANS DO NOT LAY THE INFANT IN THE CRADLE STRETCHED OUT, BUT SITTING, AND THE HEAD IS PROTECTED BY A STRONG HOOP OF WOOD. LENGTH, 11 INCHES. RUSSIAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA, 1896.CONT. FROM CARD:"203,527 B.CONT.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203527-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28 cm