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Object Type: Cradleboard

Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Wooden painted cradleboard with metal brads, woven wool, and ribbonwork Unknown Native American; Osage 84.3020 wood, wool, metal, silk, paint
Wooden painted cradleboard with finger woven sash Unknown Native American; Osage 84.3019a-b wood, metal, paint, wool, glass
Wooden painted Osage cradleboard Unknown Native American; Osage 84.3018 wool, metal, paint, yarn
Blue beaded cradleboard with punchwork design on boards Unknown Native American; Kiowa 84.627 wood, glass, hide
Wooden painted Osage cradleboard Unknown, Ben Stone Native American; Osage 84.626 wood, paint, glass beads, copper alloy bells and tacks, wool, semi-tanned hide, synthetic fabric (or possibly silk), cotton thread
Beaded leather cradleboard with fringe Unknown Native American; Cheyenne 84.624a-d semi-tanned hide, sinew, glass, wood, cotton textiles, cotton thread, metal tacks, likely brass
Painted cradleboard with brass pins and bells with beaded straps Unknown Native American; Osage 84.630 pigment, wood, brass, yarn, glass
Wooden cradleboard Unknown Native American; Osage (artist and user) 73.102 wood, pigments, brass
Wooden leather cradleboard Unknown Native American; Apache, Mescalero (artist and user) 84.1161 wood, hide, dye
Blue and red beaded cradleboard with geometric designs Unknown Native American; Cheyenne 84.2365 glass, wood, metal, hide (buffalo)
Toy cradleboard Unknown Native American; possibly Apache (artist and user) 84.2380 hide, wood, glass, cotton
Wooden beaded cradleboard Unknown Native American; Kiowa (artist and user) 84.1 hide, wood, cloth, glass
Red cradleboard with glass geometric and floral beadwork and metal tacks on wood Unknown Native American; Kiowa 84.629 cotton, metal, hide, glass
Beaded cradleboard with geometric and floral designs with hide fringe and cotton lining Unknown Native American; Kiowa 84.631 cotton, hide, glass, wood
Beaded yellow dyed hide cradleboard with fur lining Unknown Native American; Apache, Mescalero (artist and user) 84.632 hide, wood, fur, cloth, brass, dye, glass, sinew
Wooden cradleboard tied with hide Unknown, William Robinson Leigh Native American; possibly Osage (artist and user) 73.100 wood, hide
Fully beaded soft cradleboard Native American; Sioux 84.734 buckskin, beads, metal, sinew
Beaded cradleboard with geometric designs on hide Unknown Native American; Cheyenne or Kiowa 84.628 Wood, buckskin, sinew, glass beads, thread, copper alloy, iron tacks, twine, cloth and rawhide
Red Wool Cradleboard Paukeigope Native American; Kiowa 84.633 wood, semi-tanned hide, wool, cotton, silk, glass, steel, white metal, brass