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Cradleboard

Unknown

Southwest, Havasupai

ca. 1920

Willow Wood, cloth

2000.31

On View

Daily Life

Gift courtesy of Carl E. Fisher

It was customary among the Havasupai for an infant to be placed in a cradleboard at about the age of two weeks. They then spent much of their first year of life in the cradle. After the first year, the child gradually transitioned to playing with others while learning to walk.

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