cradle-board
cradle-board
cradle-board
Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
/1912
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Materials
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Other Notes
Small, made from single piece of tapered bark, outer bark to the inside. At bottom, bark is bent to provide foot-board at right angles. Bow consists of two wooden sticks, bent in semi-ovate shape and lashed to sticks which cross both front and back of bark. Lashings are of inner bark. Loops of twisted bark are knotted through holes down either side of back.;;
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses
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Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-716
Collection Narratives and Histories
1912/07/, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) Elm bark cradle board. J. Jamieson
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
25603
Approximate Place of Origin