Cradle

Museum number:

1-10817

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Alternate number:

811 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266

Object count:

1

Description:

Hooded cradle; twined warp is Redbud rods (Cercis occidentalis), weft is Sedge (Carex).

Donor:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

Dunlap, Fresno County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Fresno; Dunlap

Culture or time period:

Wikchamni

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

February 1907

Materials:

Redbud and Sedge

Taxon:

Carex and Cercis occidentalis

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Basketry (object genre), Cradles (children's beds), and Twined weaving

Function:

6.1 Cradles and Swaddling

Accession date:

1907

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Native name: "axulitc". Photo: 15-4881; 5002. Published: B.A.E.B. 78 Pl 40. Remarks: For materials see Supplementary Catalogue 1, P. 74.

Loans:

S1977-1978 #39: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 23, 1978–April 11, 1978)

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