Details
A RARE MODEL CRADLE, the frame with serrated top pierced four times, with red-painted borders and footrest, the attached bent-wood bar with applied skin panel finely quilled in cream and blue with crosses on a red ground, suspending six small metal crosses, remains of crimson silk and yellow cotton ribbons, probably Cree or Northern Ojibwa, circa 1830
16.5cm. high
16.5cm. high
Provenance
James T. Hooper, no. 1588
Literature
Phelps, 1976, p. 336, Pl. 196