Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Mac-wu's-tha-wi'-ga (a Ho-Chunk woman living among the Meskwaki) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Contact Us
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
- Previous owner
- Mac-wu's-tha-wi'-ga, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- 1875-1900
- Object Name
- Cradleboard
- Media/Materials
- Wood, glass bead/beads, brass bell/bells, hide thong/babiche, twine/string
- Techniques
- Carved, loom beadwork, gourd stitch/brick stitch/netted beadwork, strung
- Dimensions
- 74 x 25 x 29 cm
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Indigenous Term
- ho ku' tci'
