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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



There is no buckskin covering, but a set of loops along the edges serve 

 to accomplish the lashing. The most curious part of the apparatus is 

 a series of four bows or half hoops of equal radius. These are woven to 

 the side of the board, as indicated in the drawing. A string is tied to 

 the top of the board and to each of the hoops at a certain distance, so 

 that when the loose end of the string is pulled the hoops form a "buggy 



Fig 25. 

 Moki Cradle-frame, of coarse wicker, avith 



AWNING. 



(Cat No 231.>4a. Moki Pueblos. Arizona Collected by Maj. 

 J W. Powell.) 



Fix. 2 



Moki Cradle-frame, of fixe wicker, re- 

 sembling THE SACRED MEAL-TRAY. AWX- 

 IX ! UNIQUE. 



(Cat. No. 11789a, U. S N. M. Moki Pueblos. Arizona. 



Collected by Maj. J. W. Towell.) 



top," or adjustable hood to the cradle. In no other cradle is the prob- 

 lem more delicate. It depends almost entirely upon the bed to nullify 

 the effects of this cradle. Without examining the heads of Zuni Indians 

 at all we ought to find the occiput pushed in, flattened, and asymmet- 

 rical. Should they prove otherwise, it is right to assume a bed able to 

 counteract this influence. 



The Apache Indians of Arizona and Xew Mexico* make a very 

 elaborate cradle, the substantial part consisting of the frame and the 

 hood. (Fig. 28, a b) The frame is elliptical in form, the outline being 

 formed by a pole of wood bent and the two ends spliced and lashed. 

 Upon this ellipse are laid laths of white pine, planed. Over the child' « 



* Bancroft. (Native Races of the Pacific States. New York, 1873. Vol.1.) Among 

 the Apaches of the Lower Colorado the great toe " is widely separated from the others, 

 which arises probably from wading in marshy bottoms" (p. 479). 



