Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets (1903)
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923, James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 · Glorieta, N.M., Rio Grande Press · leaf 160
day. They are of coarseweave somewhat similar to the crude carrying basket shown m Fig.172. It was natural that as soon as basketry became a general art,cradles for the carrying of their babies should be made by the earlybasket makers. These are of rude willow work. The child is strappedto the main… … FIG. 174. ZUNI TOY CRADLE AND DOLL. by a Zuni mother for her child to play with, and a rude, wooden doll maybe seen within, strapped exactly as is a child in the real cradle. In her own poetic fashion Mrs. Carr thus wrote of these babycradles: Alone in the forest, or beside some rippling stream,…
Indian baskets -- North America · Basket making
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