Cradleboard cover (part)
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Sahnish (Arikara)
- Previous owner
- State Historical Society of North Dakota
- Seller
- State Historical Society of North Dakota
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the State Historical Society of North Dakota (Bismarck, North Dakota); purchased by MAI from the State Historical Society of North Dakota in 1925.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- circa 1880
- Catalog Number
- 14/1539
- Barcode
- 141539.000
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Object Name
- Cradleboard cover (part)
- Media/Materials
- Hide, rawhide, porcupine quills, cotton cloth, glass bead/beads, sinew, cotton thread, dye/dyes
- Techniques
- Sewn, dyed, quilled (lane stitched), quill-wrapped (flat), edge beaded, lined, fringed
- Dimensions
- 69 x 33 x 13 cm
- Place
- North Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Sahnish (Arikara)
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_151734
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws66b116943-0322-4db9-b7b2-281f53acf95d
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