Template:Did you know nominations/Cradleboard

Cradleboard
Created/expanded by OttawaAC (talk). Self nom at 02:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that Navajo cradleboards are made with a Ponderosa pine frame with buckskin laces looped through the frame?



nice article, enough refs and AGF the hook fact Victuallers (talk) 16:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * It's hard to believe that Navajos (in Arizona) insist on jack pine (from Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Canada) for their cradleboard frames. This cannot be correct. --Orlady (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Other sources (, suggest juniper, ponderosa, and pinyon pine as cradleboard materials. As Orlady points out, jack pine would be a botanical impossibility for Navajo culture. Choess (talk) 06:27, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Good catch, thank you -- that was dumb of me -- my source in fact says "Ponderosa" pine, so I've corrected the article and the DYK nom. OttawaAC (talk) 17:05, 24 November 2011 (UTC)