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Clatsop Hats of a Conic Figure
Bearberry
 

Coastal Indian Cradleboard

Sacagawea

Sakakawea

J. Agee photos


The board hanging on the wall in the captains' quarters is of the type used by Northwest Coast Indians such as the Chinooks and Clatsops to shape the heads of their infants. William Clark drew a sketch of one.

The rigid cradleboard shown in the sculpture at left, used by many Indian women, with the infant facing to the rear, has become a stereotype. However, Hidatsa Indian women, from whom Sakakawea (or Sacagawea) would have learned mothering, commonly carried their babies in a shawl or blanket slung over the shoulder, facing forward, as in the photo at right.1

--Joseph Mussulman 01/99

1. See The Faces of Sacagawea/Sakakawea/Sacajawea
Clatsop Hats of a Conic Figure
Bearberry


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