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Baby Cradles of the Ozark Bluff Dwellers56

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

S. C. Dellinger
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Mason begins his classical paper on the Cradles of the American Aborigines by stating that many questions in anthropology, depend for their answers on a correct knowledge of the manner in which the child passes the first year of its life. He points out that the cradle might modify the shape of the child's head and, indeed, of its whole frame. Apparently, then, the study of cradles should contribute equally as much to our knowledge of culture relations as it would to that of physical anthropology, especially since tradition is supposed to linger long in customs affecting the child. Again, the study should increase our understanding of the ecology of the cradle maker. In this connection, I fear, we often fail to consider the fact that the art of the particular people being studied reflects their attempts to make a living within their own environment. The cradle-board, as Mason also shows, is the child of geography and meteorology.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , January 1936 , pp. 197 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1936

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Footnotes

57

Professor of Zoology and Curator of the University of Arkansas Museum.

56

Research Paper No. 403, Journal Series of the University of Arkansas.

References

58 Mason, Otis T., Cradles of the American Aborigines, 1887.

59 Kidder, A. V., and Guernsey, S. J., Archaeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona, 1919; Basket Maker Caves of Northeastern Arizona, 1921.

60 Harrington, M. R., The Ozark Bluff-Dwellers, 1924, p. 10.

61 Harrington, M. R., op. cit.

62 Fletcher, Alice C, and La Flesche, Francis, The Omaha Tribe, 1911, p. 327.

63 Harrington, M. R., op. cit., p. 10.

64 Mason, Otis T., op. cit.

65 Harrington, M. R., op. cit., plate II D, and page 10.

66 Bushnell, David I., Jr., Tribal Migrations East of the Mississippi, 1934.

67 Published by permission of M. R. Gilmore.

68 Mason, Otis T., op. cit., p. 180.

69 Guernsey, S. J., and Kidder, A. V., Basket Maker Caves of Northeastern Arizona, op. cit., pp. 56–57.

70 Guernsey, S. J., and Kidder, A. V., Basket Maker Caves of Northeastern Arizona, op. cit., pp. 54–55, and note 1, p. 55.

71 Holmes, W. H., Prehistoric Textile Fabrics of the United States, 1896.

72 Kidder, A. V., and Guernsey, S. J., Archaeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona, op. cit., pp. 165-166.

73 Ray, V. F., The Sanpoil and Nespelem, 1933, pp. 128-130; Teit, James, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, 1930, pp. 166–167, 280–281; Boas, Franz. Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region, 1928, pp. 174, 210.

74 Op. cit., pp. 17–21.

75 Spier, Leslie, Havasupai Ethnography, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 29, Part 3, pp. 315-322, 1928.