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Object Number
972-45-10/51881
Display Title
Model cradle board with cloth doll
Descriptions
Object Description
Model cradle board of a strutted wood form with a head board and covered with cloth. Stitched with blue, yellow, white, red and green opague glass beads in linear and wave pattern in the "lazy-stitch" technique and set with a doll figure of cloth with stitched facial features. 29 x 10.5 inches (length x greatest width)
Inventory Description
Toy, baby carrier with fabric doll, beaded designs.
Classification
- Baby Carrier
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Plains
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Southern Plains
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Glass beads
Dimensions
Overall: 76 x 26.5 x 22 cm (29 15/16 x 10 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
972-45-10/51881
Provenance
Collector
Grandmother of Mrs. G. Prescott Low
(1890)
Donor
Mrs. G. Prescott Low
(09/29/1972)
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