1950's - Sleeping Baby
by Lenore Senior
Title
1950's - Sleeping Baby
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Lenore Senior
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Pastel - Photo
Description
1950's - Sleeping Baby is taken from 8 mm movie film shot by Willoughby Senior during his 30 year relationship with the Navajo and Hopi people. Senior explained that the cradle board served a very important purpose. While Anglos see it as lack of freedom, the tribes saw it as what would now be called secured attachment. While the woman worked in the fields, cooked, etc., the baby would always be with her and the wrap provided feelings of safety and security. This image is a young Navajo woman holding the baby on her lap and is processed by one of Senior's daughters, Lenore Senior
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November 5th, 2017
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Karen Adams
A beautiful soft image . . . so filled with love! ♥ Wonderful description with this too!......vf
Dawn Senior-Trask
What a beautiful and touching image of a baby in the cradleboard. Among my fond memories of the Hopi is having a baby's uncle explain to me that the cradleboard forms one of the first bonds between father and newborn, since with special songs and ceremonies he gathers the materials from the desert and makes the cradleboard. The infant I was holding while the uncle explained this, soon reached for the comfort of the cradleboard and when securely bundled into it fell into a peaceful sleep. Beautifully done! fav
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