Toy Cradleboard
Former TitleBeaded Cradle
Artist
Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty
(North American Indian, Assiniboine Sioux, born 1950)
Date1989
MediumNative tanned leather, glass and brass beads, cotton and wool cloth, wool yarn, wood, pigment, and brass tacks
DimensionsOverall: 46 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 6 inches (118.11 × 16.51 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Donald D. Jones
Object number2001.3.7
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionA small beaded cradle on two painted-wood "runners." It is decorated with brass bells, tacks, beads, shells, and horsehair. The carrying strap is made of colored yarn.Gallery LabelJoyce Growing Thunder Fogarty is widely recognized as a master of contemporary beadwork. Together with her daughter, Juanita, who has also won wide acclaim, she looks back to her Plains ancestry in the creation of traditional forms. This toy cradle is patterned after those created by Kiowa and Comanche women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries yet represents the artist's own, highly distinctive style. The beaded lizard hanging from its side replicates a protective amulet that would have originally contained a small piece of the child's umbilical cord.
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty
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