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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



suspension straps, one near the top and the other very low down. On 

 the front the buckskin has loose flaps to inclose the child. The hood or 

 awning is a very curious affair, and if closely drawn down would cer- 

 tainly give to the Uncompaghre child the forehead of a Flathead. It 

 is a kind of tiara, made of little twigs lashed to stronger rods. The 

 lower margin over the child's forehead is bound with soft buckskin 

 The hard cradle-board allies it to the Northern type, where timber is 

 larger, rather than to the pure Ute type, where a hurdle takes the 

 place of the board. 



The cradle-frame of the Southern Utes is so well shown in the three 

 drawings presented as not to need very minute description (Figs. 22, 

 23, 24). The frame-work consists of three parts, the slats, the hoop, 



Fig. 23. 



Fig. 22. 



Fig. 24. 



Three Views of Ute Cradle-frame, made of rods and covered with 

 dressed buck-skin. 



(Cat. No. 14646, U. S. N. M. Southern Utah. Collected by Major J. W. Powell.) 



and the hood. A dozen twigs like arrow-shafts, 4 feet long, are held 

 in place by here and there a twine of basketry; across the portion to 

 which the ends of the head-band are to be attached a rod is lashed to 

 hold the lattice firmly in place. A hoop of twig, elliptical in form, is 

 lashed to the frame wherever it touches and to the ends of the cross rod. 

 To the upper border of the hoop is sewed an irregular quadrangular 

 piece of twined basketry weaving. Its outer border is sewed to a rod, 

 which is bent and fastened at its ends to the slats. This forms the 



