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pendants or rattles above the door of the tent. Still higher 

 up than these on the cradle, are two quill-wound strips lying 

 parallel to each other. These represent man and woman, 

 since a man and a woman own a tent together. On the orna- 

 ment representing hair are several pairs of pendants having 

 loops at their ends. These loops represent the holes in the 

 bottom of the tent through which the tent-pegs pass. The 

 whole cradle, owing to its shape and the fact of its being 

 stretched on a framework of sticks, resembles a tent-door, and 

 therefore represents it. 



Both of these extensive symbolic interpretations were given 

 by one and the same person to the ornamentation of one 

 cradle. 



Fig. 14, a, shows a cradle like the preceding, except that in 

 place of the round ornament over the head there is a rectangu- 

 lar one of red quill-work on which is a white cross. The 

 shape of this probably has reference to the rectangular tent- 

 ornaments sometimes used. 



Very similar to the two cradles just described are two in 

 the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. One of these con- 

 tains green in its quill-work. 



Fig. 14, c, shows a cradle worked in yellow quill-embroidery 

 instead of red. The rectangular ornament containing a white 

 cross is similar to that on the cradle last described, but in 

 several other respects this cradle differs in ornamentation. 



The oblong ornament at the top represents the head of the 

 child. Yellow wool embroidered upon it is hair. A stripe of 

 blue beads surrounding this ornament represents face-paint. 

 At the lower part of the cradle are the ribs of the child. 



The oblong ornament also represents a tent-ornament. The 

 pendants above it are the rattles at the top of the tent. They 

 signify that it is wished that the child may become old enough 

 to possess a tent. Yellow strips surrounding the opening of 

 the cradle represent the circumference of the base of the tent. 

 Tufts of wool at intervals between these strips represent the 

 places of the tent-pegs. The ornaments that are called ribs 

 are also the pins used for fastening together the front of the 

 tent, just above the door. Rattle-pendants attached to them 



