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cradle-basket
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a cradle woven of vegetable fibres, used by the Indians of central British Columbia [see picture at cradle].
Quotations
1922
"My daughter--who is barely out of her own cradle-basket--give her to you, whose hands are blood-dyed with the killing of a score of my tribe? You ask for this thing?"
1939
Many cradle baskets were hung up in the trees around the [Shuswap] village that winter, where the women, sorrowing had put them to be used no more. . . .