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rows of yucca leaves 3 inches apart; figure 78 shows the manner in 
which the latter were carried along the edge before reentering the 
mat, and at the same time providing loops for the attachment of the 
yucca netting which drew up the sides of the mat and inclosed the 
cradle. At one end the mat is turned up at a sharp angle and is 
held thus by a mesh of yucca leaves attached at several points to 
the front netting. The other end is formed in the same manner, 
but with less care. 
The second specimen (“ grass area,” Cave IT, pl. 72, 5) is 30 inches 
long, 18 inches wide. It was filled with crushed and shredded bark 
in which were a number of pifion nuts. It is made of thick ?-inch 
strips of cedar bark running its whole length; these are held close 
together by tightly twisted 
yucca-leaf twining elements 
irregularly spaced but car- 
ried along the edge as in 
figure 78. 
The bottom is turned up 
and attached as in the cradle 
described above. The top is 
either unfinished or broken, 
loose and frayed ends of the 
bark strips extending some 
10 inches beyond the last 
twining. The V-shaped 
opening from the top to within 4 inches of the bottom is laced across 
with a rude netting caught into the twining elements of the body. 
The shapeless appearance of these cradles when found, crushed — 
down by the sand in the cists and in the débris, at first deceived us 
as to their nature, and in the field we referred to them as panniers. 
It was not until they had been cleaned in the laboratory and had 
regained something of their original shape that their true purpose 
became evident. The identification was rendered certain when the 
infant “ mummy ” from Cist 1, Cave I, was unwrapped and found to 
lie in the somewhat tattered remains of one of them, the yucca net- 
ting still fastened across the body (pl. 73). 
Toy cradle (?).—In plate 29, a, under the “ mummified ” foot will 
be seen what appears to be a small grass bag, but which proves, on 
closer examination, to have all the essential features of the cradles 
just described. The back or body is made of grass bundles instead 
of cedar-bark strips; the netting, however, is of yucca as in the larger 
specimens. When whole it was apparently about 18 inches long by 
8 inches wide. We judge that this little object was a toy cradle. 
The bones of a child, 6 or 7 years of age, found in the same cist, 
lend color to the theory. 
Fic. 78.—Edge binding of cedar-bark cradle. 
