Basket baby-carrier
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Object Details
- Culture/People
- Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
- Previous owner
- Nellie Scott, Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
- Collector
- Edward H. Davis (Edward Harvey Davis/E. H. Davis), Non-Indian, 1862-1951
- Collection History
- Collected in 1918 from Nellie Scott (Quechan) by Edward H. Davis (1862-1951, a rancher and field collector for MAI) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Date created
- circa 1910
- Catalog Number
- 8/8620
- Barcode
- 088620.000
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- Object Name
- Basket baby-carrier
- Media/Materials
- Mesquite, mesquite bark, feather/feathers, wool cloth, cotton cloth, wool yarn, glass bead/beads, metal bead/beads, brass bell/bells
- Techniques
- Carved, wicker-plaited, shredded, wrapped, tied, stitched, fingerwoven
- Dimensions
- 93 x 15 x 34 cm
- Place
- Arizona; USA
- See related items
- Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Southwest
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_94902
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6f4611917-c620-40b9-a033-ee66bb7a6ad8
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