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Cradle Board
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Cradle Board

The people of the eastern Woodlands had a nomadic lifestyle and infants need ed to be protected from accidental injury when a family was on the move. The child was strapped to the rigid wooden cradle board, padded for his comfort. The hoop shielded the childs head.

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