#cradleboard

Cradleboard (wood, rawhide, and pigment; 66 cm [26 in] high x 26.7 cm [10.5 in] wide x 26.7 cm [10.5 in] thick) made by an artist of the Mohawk people in Quebec, ca. 1860. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA. Photo credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Museum. Relatives made this cradleboard in yellow ocher for a baby girl; they would have used white clay paint for a boy. Its wooden backboard is covered in leather and ornamented with geometric and curvilinear designs in pigment and beadwork. A hood of thin wooden rods provided protection if the cradleboard tipped forward and also kept the sun from the baby’s eyes. A small, beaded case used to hold a stitching awl for sewing heavy hides hangs from the side.

Mohawk / Klikitat / Nez Perce

Kiowa Cradleboard // Iroquois Cradleboard

Photography by J.H. McGibbeny featured in Arizona Highways

Lattice cradle of the Kiowa people, late 1800s, Oklahoma.

Date: undated (ca. 1900?) Negative Number 004848

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