Cradle
Fort Point Museum
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| Object Name: | Cradle |
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| Category: | Sleeping & Reclining Furniture |
| Material: | wood and rope |
| Accession Number: | 21.01.02 |
| Latest Production Date: | 2021-12-31 |
| Description: | a cradle with a curved bottom to allow it to rock, the shorter sides have a curved top edge which has cutouts for handles, the longer sides have a high side that drop off to be shorter along with ropes coming out near the bottom. at each corner there is a post that narrows and becomes larger again with a cylinder on the top. there is 6 ropes going in one direction, and 4 going the other way. |
| History of Use: | used to rock a baby to sleep |
| Height: | 48 cm |
| Length: | 102 cm |
| Width: | 61 cm |
| Institution: |
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| Institution City: | LaHave |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |