Toy cradle; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix), weft is string. Scoop shaped toy baby basket with bundle of fibers tied inside. Made of spaced horizontal elements tied with strings at intervals.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Lake, Lake County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Lake; Upper Lake
Culture or time period:
Eastern Pomo
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Willow (wood)
Taxon:
Salix
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds), Toys (recreational artifacts), and Twined weaving
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
August 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: "End of Stanley Basket Collection. For materials see Supplementary catalogue 1, p. 46.
Loans:
S1938-1939 #1: Golden Gate International Exposition (February 14, 1939–October 11, 1940), S1965-1966 #70: Merritt College/Steve Walter (March 8, 1966–March 17, 1966), S1968-1969 #76: Project EPOCH/David Wayne Peri (February 14, 1969–May 23, 1969), S1970-1971 #67: Urban Studies Center (January 21, 1971–January 22, 1971), S1973-1974 #41: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (November 27, 1973–January 16, 1974), S1981-1982 #55: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District (April 13, 1982–October 5, 1982), and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)