cradle-board

She and four of the younger Iron Priests bundled the uncon'scious Elves into the same kind of swaddlings that the Iron Peo-ple used for their infants, only adult-sized, complete with a rigid board very like a cradle-board.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Professor Mason sees in the cradle-board or frame "the child of geography and of meteorology," and in its use "a beautiful illustration of Bastian's theory of 'great areas.'"

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

As she moved about the tent, Gerda saw that a baby, strapped to a cradle-board, hung over her back.

Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

Hupas; the Klamath cradle of wicker and rushes; the Pomo cradle of willow rods and wicker-work, with rounded portion for the child to sit in; the Mohave cradle, with ladder-frame, having a bed of shredded bark for the child to lie upon; the Yaqui cradle of canes, with soft bosses for pillows; the Nez Percé cradle-board with buckskin sides, and the

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

THE REDSKIN boy-child who looks out from his little cradle-board on a world of forest through whose trails his baby feet are already being fitted to follow is not many hours old before careful hands wrap him about with gay-beaded bands that are strapped to the carven and colored back-board that will cause him to stand erect and upright when he is a grown warrior.

The Shagganappi 1913

The child is wrapped in its carrier, or cradle-board, which is left face up and covered with any sort of cloth, the belief being that the souls of infants are not strong enough to come out through the stones, should they be placed in the ground and covered therewith.

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

The old men, the women, the children, and the littlest ones still strapped to the cradle-board, must then remain behind.

The Hidden Children 1899

A brave Jesuit converted me ere I was unstrapped from the cradle-board -- ere I could lisp or toddle.

The Reckoning 1899

The redskin boy-child who looks out from his little cradle-board on a world of forest through whose trails his baby feet are already being fitted to follow is not many hours old before careful hands wrap him about with gay-beaded bands that are strapped to the carven and colored back-board that will cause him to stand erect and upright when he is a grown warrior.

The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887

Your straight little cradle-board rocks you to rest;

Flint and Feather E. Pauline Johnson 1887