The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-20
SECTION TWO
Photos by
Major Lee-MOorehOuse.

HE CUTEST thing human kind is the papoose.
Do not think that because it is the child Of
Indian squaw the papoose is born TO a life
Of neglect Instead as long as the indian babe
stays strapped its board its redskn mother is its
constant and loving companion.
It's first Christmas although the Indians have taken
of the holiday customs of the whites, the
poose had no stocking hung up Beside the baby red
skin placed its presents. Perhaps it viii receive
bright necktie indians fond of COLOR; but its
gifts apt to be strings OF shells an elk tooth
The infant OF bronze wears no stockings because
St does not need them. The board which it is
strapped fastened it comforting flaps OF skin
1Jlrnos Of many accessories of nfancv III acts as
the cradle. The sqUaw mother, instead Of rocking the
cradle takes baby, board and ALL swings him in her
and. humming Indian ditty, puts him sleep
him upright against a tepee pole 70 snooze.
ehe board is the papooses gocart II has no wheels;
so the mother straps it onto her back and gives the
baby airing. If she rides pony. onto the saddle
she ties the board and joys along-the papoose dan
tng at the side Of the beast and looking like little
This board is a creation Of necessity. The Indian
Following his WilL IS a nomad Being on the go so
much him put up his things in convenient
81 would soon get broken The Indian mother could
not carry her babe in the way that the white
convenient package make of the is to tie
him on a board and the Indian mother carries her
dame Is by 6er sR U Bog OS " IMAM S''u
In making this peculiar article of the Indian house
hold the prospective mother spends much time and
Girls make their baby-board even before they
marry. The father in making his daughters marriage
settlement ofttimes puts I'm board of The
things to cOunterbalance the goods brought forward
by the groom The sqUaw shapes the board and then
it generally with bUcskn- Onto this she works
beads of many colors and makes OF them designs of
leaves, flowers animals. She always adds flaps
with a head cover: these flaps strap the baby
into-the board may say, is the sole of shoe;
The flaps the upper The straps of a fine papoose-
board are Outlines made of leather thongs strung with
large. fiat beads shells. Sometimes, however, the
board" is simple in make, being merely few bent
sticks. But it is mark of gentlity distinction for
the mother TO put her into the flaps Of
a richly ornamented board.
In time of the Indian mother takes the papoose
along The mother herself renders great aid even in
battle She takes Of the ponies while the braves
make attack All the while the papoOse slung
on her back After the battle of Wounded Knee, in
Dakota. 92. there upon its mothers cold
stn body young girl papoose. The mother had been
shot throuER the heart The babe lay exposed to the
cold all It, but the skin wrapping had kept it from
freezing FINDING the little papoose strapped upon its
dead mother big-hearted volunteer colonel from Ne
braska who man of wealth, said:
Boys we've killed the mother It's up to
take Of the child. BY the Gods I'll adopt her
right now; she shall be my daughter"
So the colonel carried the little papOOse back
railway strapped her board.
. The Indian mother never whips her papoose OF
course, is the custom among civilized -
the chief reason for licking kid is because ne cries
AWhen the redskn youngster yels its mother merely
holds its nose IL she wants it TO quit She does not
whip it, because she does not want to weaken spirit