Cradle

Inunaina (Arapaho)
Central Plains
Plains

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about 1870

Glass beads, Stroud trade wool, native-tanned bison hide, cow rawhide lining, wood, willow sticks, muslin cloth, brass bell, string, sinew, thread, prayer bundle,

Overall: 43 5/16 × 14 9/16 in. (110 × 37 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P

985.47.26531

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Transportation: Human, Baby Carrier

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marks: (in ink at top, number has been carefully crossed out) "22558/52.60"

Exhibition History

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.

Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.

Publication History

Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.66, no.68, ill., p.25.

George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 11 and p. 169, no. 129.

Provenance

Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.

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