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The Riverside Municipal Museum has an outstanding collection of Native American cradles, or infant carriers, that features examples from every major culture area in North America where the cradle was used.
One of the most unique cradles in the exhibition was a cradle sack of the Sioux (Acc. No. A1-583). The lining is cotton cloth sewn to a crested bucksin cover, which is quilled in bright red with yellow, blue and white trim. Yellow quilled triangular designs on the crest may be a variation of the turtle design, which among the Sioux symbolized protective power over disease in infancy (Wissler 1905:241). The crest is topped with partially beaded fringe, and the cover itself is trimmed in the alternating red, blue yellow, white and green beadwork. The shape of this particular cradle sack, which was identified by Rumsey as Cheyenne, is similar to a Sioux cradle in the United States National Museum illustrated by Hilger (1952:247, Plate 7). However, that cradle sack is compsed of very different design elements on a white beaded background.
Pre-1910 Sioux Infant Carrier, from the Great Plains, is a full sized cradleboard. It has a wooden frame and a beaded leather cover decorated with buttons, beads and bells. “7 children raised in this cradle” is noted in Museum records. [A1-588]
Taken from: Chris Moser - Honoring Exhibition
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