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National Geographic : 1964 Feb
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Finishing a woven basket, Mrs. Alice Kabotie, a Hopi of Oraibi, Arizona, works with fine ly split yucca leaves. She holds one leaf in her teeth as she loops another around the rim. Fresh green leaves provide the design against a background of sun bleached white ones. Mrs. Kabo tie's diamond-patterned creation required two hours to make. Centuries-old basket (below, left), retrieved from the cliff ruins, looks amazingly new. Bright-eyed Acoma baby is strapped to a hard-back cradle board such as Indians have used for more than 12 centuries. Moth ers at work in the pueblo can prop their infants against a wall or rock, where they can look around while awake. Because the board serves as a bed where baby spends the night and most of the day, the head be comes permanently flattened. Adult skull from Adobe Cave, near Mug House, shows the flat tening produced by such cradle boards as the 700-year-old Mesa Verde ones below. 202
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