Baby carrier

Baby carrier

Baby carrier

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Introduction

Small Anishinaabe-style wooden cradleboard, probably made for a doll. Has a cloth moss bag attached. According to catalog record, this item was created circa 1875.

Place of Origin: Garden River First Nation
Date Made or Date Range: c. 1875
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

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Materials

wood, cotton, thread, small nails

Techniques or Format

Wooden backboard, frame and bend bow. Frame is secured with thread tied through holes in backboard and frame. Holes at each end and at the bottom of the frame. Cloth moss bag also secured with thread, tied and secured in same locations to the backboard as the frame. Each end of the bow is inserted into corresponding slots in the backboard and nailed. Carved edge at the top of the backboard. Drawing of possibly a doll or human figure in pencil on the background, placement where doll or baby would be

Condition: fair
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

catalog data

Current Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 38-44-10/12748
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1938
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1875-1900
Collection Narratives and Histories

Item created circa 1875. Sold to the collector Peter Mahgsanikwe Jones from garden River Reservation, Ontario at an unknown date. Purchased from Jones by Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastment in 1900. Gifted to the museum by Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in 1938.

GKS Reference Number: 45102
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Meredith Vasta on 11-12 August 2015.

Approximate Place of Origin

46.5387, -84.1464

Source of Information about Places

collected from Garden River Ojibway reserve, Ontario

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