Skin Bed For Comanche Child
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1887, FIG. 34, P. 199 ALSO IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 6970; P. 508."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 136 in Broughton, Deanna Tidwell. Hide, Wood, and Willow : Cradles of the Great Plains Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. Identified there as a night cradle, made from a tubular piece of rawhide, with fur turned inward, laced up the front with buckskin lacings. Otis T. Mason identified the skin as bearskin. On p. 132 and 134 Broughton further describes the night cradle, and E6970 in detail. She indicates that the night cradle was specifically made for sleeping.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Texas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001317
label: USNM Number
content: E6970-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle