Show THE 11 V ORD FOR THE INDIAN BABY CRADLE what Is the indian word tor for the cradle or basket the indian mother binds her baby ina in is a question I 1 have been asked many hundreds of ol 01 times and winch which I 1 have refused a great many score of times to tell I 1 vas was more than two years friendly ac with the indians of ka i osh before either a father or mother would tell me finally I 1 got it then I 1 purchased s dictionary of the plute language and after con Id erable study got the plute word from it which exactly agrees with the word and pron the in deans gave me in zuni new mex it Is Klay math that Is their word tor for it got by me in 1929 and confirmed by the agent accompanying our party among the apache indians the word Is esock sock pronounce it with a T beginning and slur into the i lest est of the word T sock henry kettlewood a full blooded shasta indian from northern call fornia says in his language it la is E chee pah the snake valley and deep creek indians and also the indians of iba pah use NI AH PAH as their word tor for the baby cradle from another indian of another tribe I 1 get his word being toot us my dad whacked bulls through it lands ol 01 the pawnee the comman che the crows the shoshone the well that s enough and a dif differed feren word by each major tribe the Pa livant utes say kone and a variant of this Is khan the a like broad italian a as in ask when prop erly pronounced the buck it if he talks heavily will add an uh grunt making it kone uh 1 khan han agrees with and that I 1 say is conert and given to me by the best spoken kanosh women the study of indian words Is vey very bill bassett the old one is well posted on the indians in tact fact weino or heap savvy indians all same he gave me the word tor for the deep creek ii it dian than baby cradle ni ah pah |