Doll Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Jul 1949
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Mildred H. Loveless
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred H. Loveless
notes: label: Notes
content: Miniature cradleboard. Wooden frame ornamented with brass tacks, fully beaded hide cover with cloth lining. Lazy stitch beadwork in geometric pattern. Style is not typically Kiowa. 19" (48 cm). Records: Donor stated this was given her, shortly after her birth in 1881 by a Kiowa Indian woman, Fort Sill, Indian Territory. The donor used to carry her doll in it. (A, 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: From card: "... Father Peter J. Powell identifies this as of Cheyenne manufacture on basis of style. - W. Merrill 10-14-1990."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 183513
label: USNM Number
content: E387302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle