Cradleboard
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Framework consists of rectangular wooden board 30" long, 9" wide, with head cover consisting of wooden frame 1 1/2" wide bent to form an awning-like flexible shield for top of head. Covered with bead paneling and small bells. Bead pendant 25" long, 1 1/2" wide with alternating [left facing] swastika and floral designs. Note: original name on cradleboard "Kupulwe.""
label: Notes
content: Kupulwe/Cupulhue is the term for cradle used by the Mapuche (Araucanian) people of Chile and Argentina.
label: Notes
content: Note: many cultures around the world, including North America, used the swastika as a positive symbol, long before the National Socialist (Nazi) party came to power in Germany in the 1920s. It disappeared from use after it became negatively viewed because of its association with the Nazi party.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Minnesota / Manitoba / Ontario, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358867-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle