Toy Cradleboard with a Doll

Nimi'puu (Nez Perce)
Plateau

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1930s-1940s

Native-tanned doe hide, glass beads, cloth, thread and overlay stitch beading

Overall: 11 × 6 1/8 in. (28 × 15.5 cm)

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

985.47.26643

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plateau

Not on view

Inscriptions

Attached tag: "#37D"

Exhibition History

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.

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.79, no.175.

Provenance

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

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