File:Image from page 374 of "Bulletin" (1901).jpg

English: Title: Bulletin

Identifier: bulletin3011907smit Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Subjects: Ethnology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image: ACOMA WOMAN WITH CRADLE, for both cradle and baby'^ carriage, more especially the latter. In the arctic region, where the extreme cold would have been fatal, cradles were not used, the infant being carried about in the hood of the mother's fur ])arka; the jMackenzier. tribes put the baby in a bag of moss. In the warmer regions also, from the boundary of Mexico southward, frames were not universal, but the child, wearing little clothing, was in some way attached to the mother and tiorne on her hip, where it ]iartly rode and partly clung, or rested in hammock-like swings. The territory between these extremes was the home of the cradle, which is found in great vari- ety. The parts of a cradle are the l)ody, the bed and covering, the pillow and other appliances for the head, including those for head flattening, the lashing, the foot rest, the l)ow, the awning, the devices for suspension, and the trinkets and amulets, such as dewclaws, serving for rattles and moving attractions as well as for keeping away evil spirits. Cradles differ in form, technic, and decoration. Materials and designs were often selected with great care and much ceremony, the former being those best adapted for the purpose that nature provided in each culture area, and they, (juite as much as the wish of the maker, decided the form and decoration. Bark cradles.—These were used in the interior of Alaska and in the Mackenzie drainage basin. They Mere made of a single piece of birch or other bark, bent into the form of a trough, with a hood, and tastefully adorned with quill- work. The bed was of soft fur, the lashing of babiche. They were carried on the mother's back by means of a forehead band. Skill rradh's.—Adoi)ted in the area of the buffalo and other u'leat mannnals. The hide with the hair on was rolled up, in- stead of bark, and in much the same way, to hold the infant; when composed of hide only they were seldom decoi-ated. iMlikecradles.—On the jilains, cradles made of dressed skins were lashed to a lattice of flat sticks, especially among Sioux cradle

Text Appearing After Image: the Kiowa, Comanche, and others; but all the tribes now borrow from one another. In these are to be seen the perfection of

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.