. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS Or CALIFORNIA 585 r\. by a stick loop, and in often lacking the point of the fork. (PL 40, w, 0.) None of the Yokuts cradles, clearly, is made for hanging, except perhaps by a strap. The Maidu cradle may be described as a combination of the Yokuts first and second types; among the latter people no such combination or transitional type has been found. The southern California cradle, so far as known, has a ladderlike foundation of a few short sticks on two long ones. The two long- rods are, however, joined at the top instead of at the bottom: t
. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS Or CALIFORNIA 585 r\. by a stick loop, and in often lacking the point of the fork. (PL 40, w, 0.) None of the Yokuts cradles, clearly, is made for hanging, except perhaps by a strap. The Maidu cradle may be described as a combination of the Yokuts first and second types; among the latter people no such combination or transitional type has been found. The southern California cradle, so far as known, has a ladderlike foundation of a few short sticks on two long ones. The two long- rods are, however, joined at the top instead of at the bottom: that IS, there is a loop at the top instead of a fork below. The hood is also a separate hoop of wickerwork. (PI. 39, h.) The cradle of northeastern California, northwestern California, and the Pomo region is, in spite of much local variation, uniformly of a different order. It is of basketry, not of sticks; it is hollow instead of flat; and a rounded bottom is an integral part of the structure, while the hood is clearly a subsidiary feature. This northern cradle is built essentially for sitting (PL 35) ; that of cen- tral and southern California only for lying. The stiff cradles of central and southern California may be schematized as in Fig- ure 48, «-e being types with a wooden frame, f-g basketry forms. It will be seen that there is a complete transition from a to d: h differs superficially from c only in lacking the point of the latter. Structurally, however, the gap in the series comes be- tween these two, h being only a with the ends of the frame rod joined, whereas c is d^ namely, a natural fork at the bottom, with an added hoop. That form and consequent use may be of more importance than structural ])]an, so far as connectitms go, appeai-s from the fact that h and <• are the winter and summer types of the same people, the Maidu. Even the stick and the basketry types shade into each other: h and c, whose transverse rods are close and slender, need only the substi-
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