Cradleboard
Hualapai (Walapai), Southwest
1929
Willow or cottonwood (frame and screen), sumac bark and shredded yucca leaves (padding), buckskin, pinon pitch
Overall: 20 1/2 × 9 1/16 × 8 11/16 in. (52 × 23 × 22 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Museum Purchase
29.5.4987
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Transportation: Human, Baby Carrier
Classification
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Exhibition History
Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.
Publication History
Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.
Provenance
Collected and purchased by Professor Robert Addison Mc Kennan (Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) in Walapai Territory, Arizona, for the Dartmouth College Museum, July 1929.
Old Number
Red No. 29.38
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