Cradle Item Number: E73312-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Wooden cradle; made of single piece of wood, boat shaped, with carved handle at one end; fibre strings at sides to hold child in; remnants of fibre padding inside. Same red and black paint on surface. Apparently this is the cradle illustrated in Mason's Cradles of the American Aborigines USNM Report 1887, Fig. 7, and there erroneously called No. 2574B."A similar cradle, also from George Catlin, is in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, # PM 88-51-10/50695.
Item History
- Made in Washington, USA ? or Oregon, USA ?
- Collected by George Catlin in Washington, USA ? or Oregon, USA ?
- Received from Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr. on October 21, 1881
What
- Name
- Cradle
- Identification Number
- E73312-0
- Type of Item
- cradle
Who
- Culture
- Chinook
- Field Collector
- George Catlin
- Received from
- Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Washington, USA ? or Oregon, USA ?
- Collected in
- Washington, USA ? or Oregon, USA ?
When
- Acquisition Date
- on October 21, 1881
Other
- Accession Number
- 010638