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Property from an important Colorado private collection, Lots 327-330
Lot 328

A Cheyenne beaded cradle

19 June 2017, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

US$50,000 - US$70,000

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A Cheyenne beaded cradle

Fully beaded and fastened to a rawhide shell with cloth-lined interior, showing characteristic designs, suspending beads and bells, on the original wood frame with tacked and pointed boards, painted red at the tips, remains of yellow pigment.
length 38 1/4in

Footnotes

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, lavishing attention and artistic beauty to an otherwise functional object with refined yet exuberant decorative taste.

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