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--Made of willow wicker on a wood frame
--Made ca. 1620, most likely in the Netherlands
--Allegedly brought on the Mayflower; held by the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
This rocking cradle was reportedly stowed on the Mayflower in anticipation of the birth of Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England, who came into the world as the ship was temporarily anchored in Provincetown Harbor. Passed down for centuries in the wealthy, powerful, and embattled White and Winslow families, the cradle reflects both the Pilgrims' unprecedented ambition to create a self-perpatuating European society in exile, and their strict child-rearing practices that sought to shape the infant into a miniature adult.
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