Baby Shirt and Wrappings for Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: Has same number and therefore probably associated with cradle E73311-0. Information below is on cradle E73311-0: ACCORDING TO JOHN EWERS ("ARTISTS' CHOICES," AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE 7(2, 1982, PP.41-42: "IN HIS BOOK CATLIN ILLUSTRATED HOW A CRADLE FROM HIS COLLECTION WAS CARRIED, STATINGS THAT 'IT WAS PURCHASED FROM A SIOUX WOMAN'S BACK, AS SHE WAS CARRYING HER INFANT IN IT' (1841(2):132). CATLIN MUST HAVE ACQUIRED THIS CRADLE [E73311-0] DURING ONE OF HIS SUMMER TRIPS TO THE EASTERN DAKOTA OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IN 1835 OR 1836." NOTES ADDED BY C. GREENE 1/4/1999. SEE CATALOGUE CARDS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. FOR SIMILAR CRADLE SEE FIG. 168, P. 148, ILLUSTRATION OF CA. 1835 CRADLE #E27984 FROM PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM COLLECTION, IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE: A SURVEY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ART, BY EVAN MAURER, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 1977. SEE ALSO CRADLES FIG. 35, P. 191 AND FIG. 36, P. 192 IN PEOPLES OF THE TWILIGHT, EUROPEAN VIEWS OF NATIVE MINNESOTA 1823 TO 1862, BY CHRISTIAN FEEST AND SYLVIA KASPRYCKI, AFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESS, MN, 1999. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR XEROXES OF IMAGES OF THESE CRADLES. - F. PICKERING 5-11-2001
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Northern) / Missouri River (Upper), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Eastern (Santee, Isanti) Dakota
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E73311-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle / Shirt