The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
THE SIOUX INDIANS


able. to walk
THE SIOUX INDIANS
hare cradle shaped like SHOE If you
viii imagine a big shoe lined with soft deer
skin on the inside and covered with many
beads on the outside and the whole fastened
to frame which may be swung over the
back, you will get very fair idea of
Sioux cradle. The Stats are painted yellow,
and the baby goes down in the bottom OF the
shoe and sticks its head out of the top. The
cradle is ornamented with pretty pieces OF
ribbons and feathers, and the Indian mother
sometimes spends months in making her
cradle. The cradle is so made that the
baby can be laced up in 1t, and as the
mother carriesit,it stands erect and in such
a position as to give it straight limbs and
sound lungs. The child is thus carried I'M
I'll 1t IS about year old and the mother
often takes it with her when she rides
horseback. If the baby dies while in the
cradle the mother makes a mourning cradle
of it and fills it with black quilts and
feathers, placing these in the part where
the childs body lay. She carries the cradle
so decorated around with her and she talks
to these feathers as though they were her
baby. No matter how heavy her load is she
will not lay down this cradle, and she acts
just as though her baby were alive.
There are number of illustrations in the
museum as 10 now
WOMEN CARRY THEIR BABIES.
All Of the Indians cart them around upon
their backs and this seems to be the method
of more than half the world. The gypsies
carry their babies in the pack in which
they carry goods, and the Chinese boat
woman has her baby strapped upon her
back, and it hobs up and down as she SOULS
over the water. The Japanese woman ties
her hahV N her with string Jt hac No
support for its head and this hobs up and
down under the rays of the hot sun. She
dresses her baby in the same bright colors
as herself, and its clothes, as soon as it is
old enough to walk, are made in the same
way. The African woman carries her baby
in part of her dress and Mr.. Rockhill, the
Thibetan explorer tells me that the people
of that country put their babies into the
bag formed by making the dress full in
front and thus carry them next to their
skin. In Siam, the babies are carried on
the shoulders or hips of the mother, and it
is not an uncommon thing to see child
| couple of years old sitting astride of its
fathers shoulder, smoking cigarette
Fully three fourths of the babies of the
world go naked until they get to be five or
six years old.
THE CANADIAN INDIANS
keep their babies naked up to certain
point, and as for the little Coreans they
wear nothing but short shirt until they
are as old as our school boys. Little Egyp-
tians of both sexes trot around without
any clothes on, and the poorer classes Of
| the Chinese children are often without
clothes. l have seen quite large boys and
girls naked in Havana, Cuba, and in South
ern California, or rather on the Cali fornian
peninsula, the mother puts the child at the
age Of few mouth astraddle of her neck
and with his legs hanging down in front
thus carries him from place to place. These
children are Graded in turtle shells, and
they 60 to sleep by the rocking of this quite
as well as our babies do. One of the curl
Gus things in cradles, shown in the National
Museum, is the Siberian baby Jumper 1t
is sort of a skin basket which is furnished
with strings at each corner and which is
tied by these to an elastic pole set in the
walls of the cabin. AS the baby moves
back and forth this pole dances up and
down, and its mother thus gives it ride
with little labor.
Very near some of these cradle cases of
the National Museum are
HUNDREDS OF DOLLS,
and see that the children of all the world
are alike in their love for toys. Some OF
the finest dolls come from Alaska, and
nearly every tribe has it's different kind of
and they are made to represent the people
who make them. The doll of the flat-headed
Indian has a fiat head, and the one from
Southern Alaska will have hole through
its lower lip with an ivory PIN il it to repre-
sent the custom of the ladies of Alaska
who pierce their lip in this way. These
dolls of the Indians are of both sexes, and
not few of them are ta.tooed. One of the
Alaskan dolls has ring in his nose on
which are strung red, white and blue beads,
and other dolls are made OF straw or
grasses. The prettiest doll in the world
perhaps, is the Japanese doll, and from the
doll you can study the customs of the coun-
try. The little lunches of hair on the diff
ferent parts of Japanese dolls head en-
able US to tell just how old it is, and you
can tell Japanese child's age by it's hair
Some of the babies have their heads entirely
shaved with the exception of two little
wisps Of hair under the ears These are
very young babies. After they grow a few
months old ring of hair is allowed to re-
main about the crown, and so they keep Oh
adding until the whole of the head is GOV.
cred. 1t is the same in Siam. Such dolls
as the little girls use correspond TO the
people, and there are long haired dolls and
dolls with their hair cut. At certain time
In the life Of the boy of Siam he has his
head shaved, and the dolls represent him
before and after this hair cutting The
Corean boys all wear long hair, and Corear
dolls wear Corean costumes. The Corear
children are very fond of toys, and there
are pin wheels and tops and kites in the
| Corean collection, which has lately been
opened in the National Museum.
NONE OF THE ALASKAN DOLLS
have hair, and none of them can CRY. The
faces of many Of them are wonderful,
carved, and these little images in ivory
have faces OF variety of expressions
They are all dressed and they are put in
miniature cradles of the finest material
The Alaskan women all wear trousers anC
boots, and these Alaskan dolls all have
these garments on them. ] saw one dol
which represented an Alaskan mother with
a miniature baby on her back, and was
much interested in the Zuni dolls These
are painted the colors of a stick of candy
They are trimmed out with ribbons and are
so the museum authorities say, used in
religious worship There are also dolls
rings IN their noses, and doubt not that il
you would go to India you would also fino
dolls with bells On their toes. The collec
tion of toys in the National Museum con
stantly increases, and the lesson that is
ever before you in going through its won
ders is that the world is very much aliae
after all, and that the Indians and the
CnlneSe, Gue SldMeSe ana Inc Egyptians
the African and the South American arc
much the same as we are. No people on the
globe love their children so much as the
Chinese and Japanese, and nowhere dc
children so respect their parents. The Cor
cans laugh and chat with their children
and the Burmese mother pets her baby ant
sings it lullabys The Turks spand hours
in playing with their children, and the mos
savage of the Indians spend time in makine
toys for their babies. There is no coun try
in the world which the squalliug infant
does not rule, and on the shores Of ever,
ocean and the centre Of every land the