Baby Cradle
Tanana, Dene (Athabascan), Subarctic
collected 1929-1930
Birch bark, wood, cloth, leather
Overall: 17 5/16 in. (44 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
30.2.4620
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Transportation: Human, Baby Carrier
Classification
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Publication History
Robert A. McKennan, The Upper Tanana Indians, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 55, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1959, p. 43, fig. 3F.
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.
Old Number
Red No. 30.23
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