Cradle

Museum number:

1-10055

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010055

Alternate number:

162 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Object count:

1

Description:

Cradle; twined. Warp is Willow (Salix). Boards and cushion laced on.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

West Point, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Calaveras; West Point

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Maker or artist:

Ally Fisher

Collector:

Ephe Cummings and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Materials:

Willow (wood)

Taxon:

Salix

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

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

Function:

6.1 Cradles and Swaddling

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Used to carry children.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

length 785 centimeters, 31 centimeters, and 27 centimeters

Comment:

Native name: "hiki". For materials, cf. Supplementary Catalogue 1, p. 41. Photo: 15-2785; 15-4880. Published: Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 78m pl. 39; Milwaukee Publ. Museum Bull. v. 2, pl. 74.

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