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We just acquired a nice collection of cradleboards. The beautiful thing about using a cradleboard for an infant is that not only are they are snugly swaddled as if in an embrace (and later can be set in so that their little arms are free to wave), but when hung from a peg on the wall of a home or the branch of a tree while outside, the child gets to see what is going on around them and not just ceiling or sky. |
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(left) A twined Hupa basket with a small conical cap. 1950s-60s. Typically these were woven of redbud or hazelbush with maidenhead fern for the darker material in the decoration. This miniature cradle measures 13.5 inches long and is priced at $300. Excellent condition. (right) A Hopi miniature willow wicker cradle. These toy sizes were made for young girls to play with but would also be given out to women of childbearing years during the katsina ceremonies, usually with a flat doll version of the Hahay'i wuuhti or grandmother katsina swaddled inside it. 12 inches long. $125. |
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< The Paiute cradle, woven of willow and covered in white buckskin with a band of beadwork is 28 inches long. $600. |
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A classic Navajo cradleboard (much like one my dad made for me when I was an infant) is made of pine with a plywood footboard and a juniper headband (used to hold the clot sunshade off the baby's face.) 30 inches long. $175. |
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This 1970s-era San Carlos Apache cradleboard with the red, white and blue ric-rac is 27 inches long and came from the collection of a gentleman who was very active with healthcare issues on Arizona Indian reservations for decades, beginning in the 1960s. $220. |
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The teal-painted cradleboard with the flannel is from the Woodland Cree of northern Ontario. 30 inches long, it was made about 40 years ago. $400. |
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This larger Apache cradleboard is 38 inches long. $240. |
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This cradleboard was woven by Teri Goode, not in the Apache style, but in that of the Mono and Miwok Indians of California - from whom she is descended on her mother's side. She wove it of willow and redbud that she gathered when she visted there recently. 28" high, $600 |
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