cradles
Beltrami’s cradles: Not One, but Three. Notes on some items in the Beltrami’s Collections
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – In 2021 I wrote Beltrami’s Cradleboard and Other Stories. Beltrami’s is the Oldest Preserved Dakota Cradleboard in the World, an updated version of the article La culla di Beltrami e altre storie, published in Italian in 1993.The examples of cradles of the Eastern Sioux in the literature made me believe that the two…