Object Details
- Culture/People
- Mohawk
- Previous owner
- Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
- Seller
- Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
- Presenter/funding source
- Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1947 from Charles Melvin Heffner (1885-1978, a Reading, Pennsylvania, antiques dealer) using funds donated by the Viking Fund, Inc. (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.).
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Date created
- 1850-1880
- Catalog Number
- 21/441
- Barcode
- 210441.000
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Object Name
- Cradleboard
- Media/Materials
- Wood, paint, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled, pegged, painted
- Dimensions
- 34 x 33.5 x 79 cm
- Place
- Ontario, Québec, New York; Canada, USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Mohawk
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Woodlands
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_224681
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6a96a38af-8566-4512-9db9-fe9269d0f06a
