Cradle With Plaster Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "2 LENGHTS OF WOOD ENDING IN POINTS, CROSSED & JOINED TO 2 SHORTER PIECES OF WOOD CREATING FRAMEWORK FOR MOUNTING BABY CRADLE. CRADLE MADE OF HEAVY COTTON/LINEN (?) FABRIC W/ BUCKSKIN EDGINGS & BOTTOM SEWN W/ COTTON THREAD, ATTACHED TO FRAME W/ BUCKSKIN THONGS. ENTIRE CRADLE, EXCEPT BOTTOM & BASE, DECORATED W/ COLORED GLASS SEED BEADS, GLASS CYLINDER BEADS, BUCKSKIN TASSELS, & FABRIC. FABRIC EDGES FACE OPENING & LINES INTERIOR. REMNANTS OF RED SILK RIBBON THAT WOULD HAVE EDGED OPENING. BUCKSKIN EDGINGS & BASE COLORED W/ YELLOW PIGMENT. TOP OF WOODEN FRAME ALSO PIGMENTED YELLOW. CRADLE STUFFED W/ FIBER & A PLASTER BABY HEAD SIT IN POSITION SURROUNDED BY RED POLKA-DOT CLOTH. COTTON CARRYING STRAP ATTACHED TO BUCKSKIN LOOP ON BACK OF FRAME."
label: Notes
content: Cradleboard. Wooden lattice frame, canvas cover fully beaded in geometric patterns in lazy stitch and overlay beadwork, yellow-painted hide strips around opening with long tabs at bottom. 38" (96 cm). Records: Originally cataloged as "probably Cheyenne." Identified as Kiowa on the basis of style and construction by Candace Greene, 1991. (C). (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: Cradle has plaster baby head/mannequin inside, presumably from some previous museum display. NT20577, # 1 of 2, is the mold for the plaster baby head/mannequin in this cradle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai) (?)
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: E362336-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle / Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 99 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 31 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 22 cm