Southwest

The Southwest stretches from Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of southeastern California to central Mexico. The MPM collection has examples from the Western Apache (1), Cochiti Pueblo (1), Hopi (8), and Navajo (1).

Two major types of cradle were produced in the Southwest. One consisted of carved boards and bent wooden bows very similar to the Northeastern groups, to which children were simply swaddled and lashed with a network of hide lacing rather than cloth wrappers. The second style of cradle was a U- or lozenge-shaped frame of bent yucca or sotol that had a woven backrest and usually included a broad bow. Designs were often woven into the bow with different colored materials. The woven cradle may have also included a covering of buckskin and a hardwood footboard. Many of these cradles included an unwoven area by the bottom to allow easy elimination of the child’s waste.

Collection Items

Catalog Number : 7852
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : Summer 1912
Tribe : , from Hopi Reservation, Second Mesa, A
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac?, cotton textile, cotton laces
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 2518
Accession Number : 99999
Accession Date : 03/23/1901
Tribe : Cochiti Pueblo, purchased from Pueblo de Cochiti, NM
Region : Southwest
Material : wood, string textile, leather lacing
Source : Mrs. C. Lowenberg
Catalog Number : 7853
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : 10/22/1912
Tribe : Hopi, collected from Third Mesa, Arizona
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac?, cotton, leather
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 7854
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : Summer 1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Hopi Reservation, Arizona
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac?, cotton ties
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 7850
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : Summer 1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Hopi Reservation, Second Mesa, AZ
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac?, leather lacing
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 9971
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : 07/19/1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Mishongnovi, Arizona
Region : Southwest
Material : wood, cotton lacing, nails
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 7860
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : 01/22/1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Second Mesa, Arizona
Region : Southwest
Material : wood -cottonwood?, cotton textile, cotton textile, leather
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 7848
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : 01/20/1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Second Mesa, AZ
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac?, cotton lacing
Source : Dr. Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 7851
Accession Number : 3101
Accession Date : 01/22/1912
Tribe : Hopi, from Second Mesa, AZ
Region : Southwest
Material : wood - yucca or sotol, woody plant - willow or sumac? , cotton ties
Source : Dr Samuel A. Barrett - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1909-1921)
Catalog Number : 66736
Accession Number : 28884
Accession Date : 06/06/2001
Tribe : Navajo, from Arizona
Region : Southwest
Material : wood, leather lacing
Source : Dr. JoAllyn Archambault