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First Nations and Métis women traditionally used cradleboards and moss bags to protect and swaddle their infants. The bag is made of hide, fabric or cloth, and elaborately beaded by the women of a family. The bag is then filled with moss to keep the baby dry and act as a disposable diaper. The Cree/Ojibwe term for cradleboard is tikinagan (also spelled tiginaagan, tikkanaagan, or tikanagan).
The photograph was likely taken near Lac Seul (Lone Lake), Ontario. However, Waugh also worked in Nipigon, Manitoulin Island, and Long Lake in the years 1916, 1919 and 1920.

Title assigned by the archivist.

[Photographs of the community at Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation)] [graphic material]