Kiowa Full Size Cradle
CIRCA 1890's
Kiowa Full Size Cradle. circa 1890’s. Ex. John Painter collection. Cincinnati. Ohio. The cradle has a blue beaded background with bifurcated bead patterns and colors. The patterns include a checkerboard pattern. and a rare Kiowa “oak leaf” design. The cradle has Osage orange sticks with wonderful patterns of German silver shoe buttons that are laced through the sticks. It has classic Kiowa foot board with hide extensions at the bottom made from legs of the deer hide.
This cradle is pictured in the following books: American Indian Artifacts: The John Painter Collection. pages 108, 110; and A Window on The Past: Farl Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection. page 58.