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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried.
Quotations
1743
As soon as the child is born, they wash itt in Lu'ck warm water, put it in a Rabbit skin and tie itt in a cradle or back board. . . .
1863
Perhaps nothing in the camp amused the European young lady more than the infants, the "papooses," in their back-board cradles, buried up to the armpits in moss. . . .
1913
The Redskin boy-child . . . 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. . . .