Cradle Board Cover
37949
From: Great Plains (Plain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 37949 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Northern Cheyenne | Algonkin |
| Provenience | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Quill | Bead | Feather | Tin |
| Description | Triangular cover made of buckskin with bands of red quills with yellow and green bars mixed throughout. Two vertical bands of red feathers on the face. Pendants of red and green quill-wrapped buckskin with red horsehair tinklers hang on either side of the apex. Red quill-wrapped hide strips attached at the apex with buckskin fringe. Beaded lower edge in blue, black and yellow. Reverse is undecorated. |
| Length | 25 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Thomas B. Donaldson; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1901 |
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