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Cradle board made of birch bark. Pad of cedar bark for a mattress
Cradle board made of birch bark. Pad of cedar bark for a mattress
Object Number 15-36-10/86325
Display Title Cradle board made of birch bark. Pad of cedar bark for a mattress
Descriptions
Object Description Cradle board made of birch bark. Pad of cedar bark for a mattress.
Inventory Description Cradleboard
Classification
  • Baby Carrier
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Bark Leather Fur Fiber Rattlesnake skin Tooth
Dimensions Overall: 40 × 31 × 73 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/16 × 28 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (1915)
Collector James A. Teit

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