papoose 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-board].

Quotations

1935

Many of the villagers have . . . relics of the old times [including] carved papoose-boards and pipes. . . .

1958

Mrs. Gilbert decided that a papoose board was the answer. She called Chief Poking Fire at the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation and ordered one.