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cradle-basket 
n. a cradle woven of vegetable fibres, used by the Indians of central British Columbia.
See also: basket cradle cradle-board moss basket
- 1922 "My daughter--who is barely out of her own cradle-basket--give her to you, whose hands are blood-dyed with the killing of a score of my tribe? You ask for this thing?"
- 1939 Many cradle baskets were hung up in the trees around the [Shuswap] village that winter, where the women, sorrowing had put them to be used no more. . . .
- 1922 "My daughter--who is barely out of her own cradle-basket--give her to you, whose hands are blood-dyed with the killing of a score of my tribe? You ask for this thing?"