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All plains tribes carried their children in cradleboards. These had traditional tribal shapes and decoration, so looking at the cradleboard slung from a mother's saddle would often identify the tribe.

In Lakota a cradleboard is called chuwich'inpa.

The board was exactly that - a flat piece of wood covered in buckskin (deer hide) with a pouch at the front for the baby, supplied with straps tied across the front. Lakota versions always included two tall side-pieces of wood with pointed tops.

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