Cradle band

Museum number:
1-4260
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004260
Alternate number:
1507 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Object count:
1
Description:
Of blue and white wool, woven in herringbone pattern. Ends braided and knotted; many broken threads. Badly soiled.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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:
April 1904
Materials:
Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cradles (children's beds)
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For cradle for boy.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 3.5 centimeters and length 208.4 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle band, accession number 1-4260, described as Of blue and white wool, woven in herringbone pattern. Ends braided and knotted; many broken threads. Badly soiled.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cradle band, accession number 1-4260, described as Of blue and white wool, woven in herringbone pattern. Ends braided and knotted; many broken threads. Badly soiled.

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