Toy cradle and doll

Museum number:

1-13844a-c

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Accession number:

Acc.325

Object count:

3

Description:

(a) Wooden doll; head and body of single piece of wood; ears, nose, mouth, and 2 legs carved out; head is covered with blue and white dotted cotton fabric. (b) Toy cradle; cradle is of single piece of bent wood with 5 cross bars wrapped with cotton (?); large piece of cotton fabric wraps around doll and cradle. (c) Red and black woven cradle band for wrapping; badly worn; attached to cradle.

Donor:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection place:

Needles, San Bernardino County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

California; San Bernardino; Needles

Culture or time period:

Mohave

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

February 1908

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Dolls (figurines)

Function:

6.1 Cradles and Swaddling and 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children

Accession date:

1908

Context of use:

For child.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Dimensions:

(a)— length 26 centimeters, (b)— width 18.4 centimeters, (c)— 4 centimeters, (b)— length 50.5 centimeters, and (c)— 32 centimeters

Comment:

No. Pieces: "1"; description indicates plural.

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