CRADLES OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. 



lb % 5 



them terras of derision.* The classification of the Tinne' of Alaska is 

 %iven by Dall. 



Eskimo Woman of Point Barrow, 

 carrying child. 



(From photograph.) 



Kg. 2. 



Eskimo "Woman of Point Barrow, 

 carrying sleeping child. 



(From photograph.) 



The Tinnean tribes use some sort of device in which to lash their 

 children during the first year. One should expect, however, to find 

 these Indians also copying the Eskimo cradle hood, f Strachan Jones, 



towards their shoulders" than those of the men, "in order to cover their children 

 when they wish to carry them on their backs " (p. 23). 



Franklin, C apt. J. (Narrative of Second Expedition, London, 1828, 4to) : The same 

 kind of hood, for the same purpose as that among the Loucheux, was seen in use 

 among the Eskimo women naar the mouth of the Mackenzie, on the Arctic coast (p. 



* Contributions to N. A. Ethnology, Bur. Ethnology, i, 24 ; also The Native Tribes 

 of Alaska, A. A. A. S. , Ann Arbor, 1885. 



t Cradles (Dixon's Voyage, p. 239) : It might be imagined that the children of 

 these savages would enjoy the free and unrestrained use of their limbs from their 

 earliest infancy. This, however, is not altogether the case. Three pieces of bark are 

 fastened together, so as to form a kind of chair. The infant, after being wrapped in 

 furs, is put into this chair, and lashed so close that it can not alter its posture, even 

 with struggling, and the chair is so contrived that when a mother wants to feed her 

 child, or give it the breast, there is no ocasion to release it from its shackles. Soft 

 moss is used by the Indian nurse to keep her child clean ; but little regard is paid to 

 this article, and the poor infants are often terribly excoriated ; nay, I have frequently 

 seen boys of six or seven years old whose posteriors have borne evident maiks of this 

 neglect in their infancy. 



Franklin, Capt. J. (Narrative of Second Expedition, London, 1828, 4to): The hood 

 of the dress among the Lower Loucheux women is "made sufficiently wide to admit 

 of their carrying a child on their back" (p. 28). 



