Property of various owners
A Cheyenne beaded cradle
Beaded on buffalo hide, over a cloth-lined rawhide frame, the fully-beaded exterior showing characteristic designs, hung with silk ribbons, on the original frame with tacked and pointed boards bearing remains of yellow pigment.
length 43 1/2in
length 43 1/2in
Sold for
US$ 103,700
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Cf:
For a very similar example of this classic Cheyenne type, see Bonhams & Butterfields Native American and Pre-Columbian Art, June 4, 2007, lot 4462, from the Paul Dyck Collection. Both of these cradles share the same aesthetic of refined yet exuberant decorative taste in lavishing attention and artistic beauty to an otherwise functional object. All Native American cultures fashioned special baby carriers as a means to protect and proudly show off their progeny. Cheyenne women, with rigorous standards dictated by their internal beadwork societies, often excelled at these, creating superbly artistic artifacts like the present example.
Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American
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