Cradle
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1870
Glass beads, Stroud trade wool, native-tanned bison hide, cow rawhide lining, wood, willow sticks, muslin cloth, brass bell, string, sinew, thread, prayer bundle,
Overall: 43 5/16 × 14 9/16 in. (110 × 37 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26531
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Transportation: Human, Baby Carrier
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marks: (in ink at top, number has been carefully crossed out) "22558/52.60"
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Publication History
Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.66, no.68, ill., p.25.
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 11 and p. 169, no. 129.
Provenance
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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