Small Toy Cradleboard, c.1890

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Small Toy Cradleboard, c.1890
Small Toy Cradleboard, c.1890
Small Toy Cradleboard, c.1890
Artifact/Collection Number: 
AC 2002.2_11
Location: 
Shelf 32 Box 4

A small toy cradleboard made of tan leather and colored hemp string. The toy is decorated with pink, green, red and blue bead work and a bundle of black cloth meant to represent a baby bundled in the cradleboard. A long multicolored hemp rope is attached to the back of the cradleboard. This item is believed to be from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, and belonged to Zatae Longsdorff, class of 1887. 

Decade: 
1890-1899
Origin: 
Gift of Enid Straw, 1968 and 1975
Groups and Organizations: 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
People: 
Longsdorff, Zatae
Subject: 
toy
bead work
Native Americans
Format: 
Miscellaneous