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16/40 Cradleboard

This cradleboard was purchased on a Native American reservation in South Dakota around 1912 by Manistee attorney and philanthropist, Thomas J. Ramsdell. It is typical of the beadwork of the Algonquian Indians of the late 19th Century.

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