Rachel's
Cradle, Apache
by Barbara Sullivan
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This is Rachel, a little Apache girl, captured at Bitter
Springs, Arizona playing with her doll. Native American
children, like most children mimic their parents in play.
On her back she carries a miniature cradle board. Inside is
her stuffed deerskin papuse doll. The term papoose is said
to have come from the baby's way of saying papu for father.
Se was added by the Native American people and has been
adopted by most of the tribes today. The white people
pronounce it papoose. —Barbara Sullivan