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Object Number
99-12-10/53016
Display Title
Beaded cradle
Descriptions
Object Description
"U-shaped" baby carrier: a light wooden frame encased with hide, including a hide bag for the baby, and decorated with bead-covered leather strips. Also attached are beaded leather carrying straps, laced flaps, and a collar for the baby’s head. The "trader’s blue" pony beads are arranged in different designs on each side of the cradle, alternated with varicolored "errant" beads and a white "sawtooth" design at the top of the frame, and secured with a "Crow stitch" (sinew backstitch).
Inventory Description
Cradleboard, wood frame, covered in blue and white beads, red cloth
Classification
- Baby Carrier
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1800-1825
Culture
- Crow?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Hide , Glass Leather Wood Cloth
Dimensions
Overall: 66 x 25 x 13 cm (26 x 9 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53016
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Owner
Peale Museum
(1828 - Unknown)
Owner
David Kimball
(Unknown - 1873)
Collector
Lt. George Christian Hutter
(1825-1826 - 1828)
Donor
David Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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