Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Ci'-pa-do-wa' (Prairie Band Potawatomi) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and expedition interpreter Leo Walker (Sac and Fox), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Previous owner
- Ci' pa do wa', Potawatomi/Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- 1880-1900
- Object Name
- Cradleboard
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide thong/babiche, glass bead/beads, cotton twine/string
- Techniques
- Carved, loom beadwork, perforated, tied, strung
- Dimensions
- 67.3 x 29.2 x 32.5 cm
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Indigenous Term
- ti' ke' na gan
