basket cradle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cradle woven of vegetable fibres, used by the Indians of central British Columbia. See picture at cradle-basket.

Quotations

1902

They [kloochmans] carry their babies in a basket cradle, supported by a band that goes round the mother's forehead in the old style.

1912

On the Pacific slope and throughout the interior basin the basket cradle predominates and exists in great variety.

1953

[Caption] Baby in basket cradle.