Cradleboard
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Kootenai (Kutenai) [Idaho]
- Previous owner
- John D. Bagley, Non-Indian
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of John D. Bagley; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1920.
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- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- circa 1880
- Catalog Number
- 10/1082
- Barcode
- 101082.000
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Object Name
- Cradleboard
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide, wool cloth, cotton cloth, glass bead/beads, metal bead/beads, silk ribbon, hide thong/babiche, dentalium shell/shells, shell/shells, abalone/haliotis shell, animal tooth/teeth, twine/string, thread
- Techniques
- Carved, sewn, overlay beadwork, strung, fringed
- Dimensions
- 109 x 39 x 15 cm
- Place
- Idaho; USA
- See related items
- Kootenai (Kutenai) [Idaho]
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Plains & Plateau
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_108448
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws630cc639e-a2eb-42fe-ac96-369d65bec5cf
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