Transport Cradle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Aug 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John W. Hudson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MATERIALS, PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, SALIX HINDSIANA. RIM OF PREPARED ROOT OF CIKO, SALIX SITCHENSIS. LABEL: "BASKET CRADLE OF THE YOKAIA INDIANS (KULANAPAN STOCK). MADE FROM THE PREPARED STEMS OF BAM, OR HINDS'S WILLOW (SALIX HINSDIANA). THE RIM IS A HOOP MADE FROM THE ROOT OF CHIKO, OR SITKA WILLOW (SALIX SITCHENSIS). RODS ARE LAID PARALLEL, IN FORM OF A TROUGH WITH AN OPEN END, AND HELD IN PLACE WITH 18 ROWS OF WEAVING, CALLED TSAWAM, IN A SINGLE COTTON CORD IN HALF HITCHES, WHICH PASS AROUND TWO RODS AT A TIME, MAKING TWO ROWS OF TWINED WEAVING ON THE INSIDE AND A FALSE BRAID ON THE OUTSIDE. UNDER THE BRAID IS A SPLINT OF WILLOW. THE POMO CRADLES DIFFER FROM THOSE OF THE EAST IN THAT THE CHILD'S LEGS ARE NOT LASHED TO A BOARD, BUT HANG FREE AND THE CHILD SITS IN THE CRADLE. THE HOOP IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE HEAD IBN CASE OF ACCIDENT. IT IS CARRIED BY A HEADBAND OF COTTON STRING OF THE COARSEST KIND OF PLAIN WEAVING. SHELL BEADS ARE INSERTED IN THE TEXTURE OF THE BAND. DIAMETER 19 INCHES."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035435
label: USNM Number
content: E203337-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cradle
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 48 cm