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- noun Plural form of
cradleboard .
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Examples
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Some cradleboards from the Edward Curtis collection.
Archive 2008-10-01 tellurian 2008
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Some cradleboards from the Edward Curtis collection.
Papoose tellurian 2008
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In Papua New Guinea some mothers would bind their babies 'heads with a tight bandage, which created a cone shape, while in South America babies were strapped to cradleboards, creating a flat-shaped head, he said.
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The interest in cradleboards and their effects on infants endures.
ArchivesBlogs 2009
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Ute women pulled the inner layer from the bottom up and then cut the soft wood with knives to make cradleboards for infants.
Durangoherald.com 2009
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She decorated the walls of her spotless living room with beautifully carved wooden cradleboards from many different tribes that she’d collected on her trips.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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