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Ruin 7 Cliff-dwelling example, pl. 42) held together by decorative 
lashings. In one case these are of hair, in another of leather thongs, 
in the third a mixture of the two. 
FLexIBLe TYPE: Grass.—Plate 71, }, illustrates one of three ex- 
amples from Cave I; it is made of grass and yucca leaves. The rim, 
or what corresponds to the wooden hoop of the rigid type, is a 
continuous roll of coarse grass stalks bound up tightly with yucca; 
the average thickness of the roll is three-fourths inch. The front and 
back consist of coarse-meshed, carelessly woven yucca nettings at- 
tached to the grass rim. A little shredded grass and some corn 
husks, with which the cradle was originally padded, are still held by 
the netting at the small end. It is 33 inches long and 21 inches in 
maximum width. 
The second specimen (A-2293, general digging, cist area, Cave I) 
has a very firmly rolled grass rim 14 inches in diameter. The yucca 
netting on what is apparently the back is of a uniform large mesh; 
what remains across the front appears to have been close meshed at 
the small end, while the upper portion is more like a lacing than 
a net. The cradle holds for padding a quantity of beaten or 
shredded grass and shredded cedar bark. A fragment of a third 
cradle (A-2294) consists of the lower or small end with a double 
net of yucca like the specimens just described. It also held some 
of the soft padding. 7 
While it is possible that these objects were not cradles, they are 
assumed to be such because of their shape (pl. 71, >) and because 
of their contents of soft grass and bark, substances commonly used 
by the Indians as bedding for infants. Furthermore, they are of 
such flimsy construction that they would have been of little use as 
carrying devices, the only other logical service assignable to them. 
One of the infant “mummies” from Cave I was found lying on 
grass and cedar bark, the latter embedded in the adobe in which the 
remains were encased. 
Professor Cummings? reports “ bags of loosely woven yucca lined 
with cedar bark” and “bags of cedar bark fiber held together with 
interlacings of yucca cord.” Hough? mentions finding in Tulerosa 
cave, New Mexico, “bed heaps rudely constructed, though in a defi- 
nite manner, of soft grass inclosed in a mat-like net of yucca leaves; 
bundles of leaves and grass served as pillows.” 
Cedar bark.—Ten cradles of cedar bark were found, three in Cave 
I, seven in Cave II. The two best examples are here described and 
figured. No. A-2446 (Cave IT) is 27 inches long and 16 inches wide 
(pl. 72, a). It was apparently made by weaving a mat of cedar- 
bark strips, laid parallel to each other and held together by twined 
1From Sagiotsosi, 1910, p. 14. 
21907, p. 21. 
