Basket baby-carrier
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Chemehuevi
- Previous owner
- Jesusa (unknown surname), Chemehuevi
- Collector
- Edward H. Davis (Edward Harvey Davis/E. H. Davis), Non-Indian, 1862-1951
- Collection History
- Collected from Jesusa (Chemehuevi) in 1922 by Edward H. Davis (1862-1951, a rancher and field collector for MAI) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Catalog Number
- 11/6865
- Barcode
- 116865.000
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Object Name
- Basket baby-carrier
- Media/Materials
- Wood, cotton cloth, willow, metal nails
- Techniques
- Cut, bent, nailed, tied
- Place
- Chemehuevi Valley; San Bernardino County; California; USA
- See related items
- Chemehuevi
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_125976
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws676d3ac24-7378-4660-965b-04653167ae3b
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