Cradle Toy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Painted wooden lattice frame, fully beaded hide cover with tabs at bottom, lined with cloth. Lazy stitch beadwork in geometric pattern. Cover made from two legging strips sewn together. Contains doll with porcelain head. 22.5" (57 cm). See Photographs section, [National Anthropological Archives] inventory no. 06275800 for picture of a girl holding this cradleboard. (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: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, 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: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152948-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle / Doll