| Description |
Large full-sized cradleboard woven entirely in open spaced plain twining, except several rows on the front corners that are woven in 3-strand twining; Cradle board is scoop-shaped with flat back and steep sides, wide sloping front, and open top, all secured to a heavy oval framing structure comprising bundled hazel shoots that are wrapped in conifer roots; Lower front portion of cradleboard is woven in evenly spaced rows of twining, Sides and back show rows of twining arranged in groups of 3, with a short section of a 4th row extending down from the rim on each side; Infant’s seat on interior bottom is fashioned from two large conifer roots that has been pounded to make them flexible; One of the roots is woven back and forth from front to back in wide passes and the second one is woven in plain twining with the first across entire width of cradleboard, again in very wide passes; Two rawhide laces are attached to the cradleboard’s interior back, each forming a series of loops, through which the long end of one of the laces will pass in a zigzag pattern from side to side to secure the baby in place; String of white, yellow, green, orange and red plastic beads are strung across top of cradleboard on length of plastic wire, with a single cowrie shell at one end and two cowrie shells at the other end. |
