cradle-board

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried [see picture at cradle].

Quotations

1791

[The board, on which the child is placed, is slung to the mother's forehead with a broad worsted belt, and rests against her back.]

1885

The mode of nursing the Indian papoose, by bandaging it on a cradle-board, is specially adapted to the vicissitudes of a nomad forest life.

1966

Tools and equipment made from forest products included . . . birch bark containers, wooden utensils, cradle boards. . . .