Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 143
led with two brass-headedtacks the richly embroidered sack, which wasopen in front and laced up and down withlong buckskin strings. Over the arms of theinfant was a wooden bow, the ends of whichwere firmly attached to the board, so that ifthe cradle should fall, the childs head and face… … AN INDIAN CRADLE OF TO-DAY. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.) In this upright cradle I lived, played, andslept the greater part of the time during thefirst few months of my life. Whether I wasmade to stand against a pole or suspendedfrom the bough of a tree while my grandmothercut wood, or whether I was carried…
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