Doll with cradle
Doll with cradle

Currently not on view

Doll with cradle,

ca. 1895

Chiricahua Apache
PU 5477

Information

Title
Doll with cradle
Dates

ca. 1895

Medium
Linen, yellow and red painted leather, white and black beads, tin jingles
Dimensions
doll (a): h. 27.5 cm., w. 13.0 cm., d. 3.7 cm. (10 13/16 x 5 1/8 x 1 7/16 in.) cradle (b): h. 10.5 cm., w. 4.6 cm., d. 4.0 cm. (4 1/8 x 1 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Object Number
PU 5477
Place Collected

North America, United States

Marks/Labels/Seals
Written in ink on lower face: APACHE
Culture
Apache, Native American
Type
cradleboards, dolls
Materials
buckskin, cloth, wood, tin
Techniques
sewing, beading (process)
Subject
girls, dancers

Collected by Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott,7th Calvary, likely during his tenure at Fort Sill, OK, 1889-1897; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), date unknown.

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