Baby Cradle
Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1929-1930
Birch bark, wood, cloth, leather
Overall: 17 5/16 in. (44 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
30.2.4620
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Transportation: Human, Baby Carrier
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Publication History
Robert A. McKennan, The Upper Tanana Indians, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 55, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1959, p. 43, fig. 3F.
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.
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