Cradle Board Cover

36926

From: United States of America | Wyoming | Wind River Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 36926
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho
Provenience United States of America | Wyoming | Wind River Reservation
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Cotton | Quill | Buckskin
Description

Wooden sticks bound together with cloth and buckskin ties wrapped entirely with a beige cloth. Buckskin band with quill-wrapped hide strips attached. Disk attached to hood with red and white quilled triangles. Reverse has 7 hide strips wrapped with white and red quills. Quilled pendant at top with hooves attached.

Length 71.12 cm
Credit Line John Wanamaker Expedition, 1900; R. Stewart Culin, 1900

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