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the three colors in the embroidery, red represents blood; 

 black, the hair (of youth and middle age) ; white, (the hair of) 

 old age. Of the sticks forming the framework inside the 

 cradle, one is unpeeled, the other peeled. The unpeeled one 

 denotes that the child is as yet helpless and dirty in its cradle ; 



Fig, 14, a. KiVli), i (^), c (tSSj)- Cradles. 



the peeled stick represents its subsequent more cleanly 

 condition. 



The round ornament at the top of this cradle, besides de- 

 noting the head of the child, represents also a tent-ornament, 

 which indeed it closely resembles. The tent-ornament signi- 

 fies that the child, when it has grown up, will have a tent. 

 Above the round ornament are pendants having small hoofs 

 and quill-wrapped loops at their ends. These represent the 



