Cradleboards are traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America, throughout northern Scandinavia among the Sámi, and in the traditionally nomadic cultures of Central Asia. There is a variety of styles of cradleboard, reflecting the diverse artisan practices of indigenous cultures. Many Central Asian communities and some indigenous communities in North America still use cradleboards.
A Navajo-style cradleboard
A Skolt Sámi mother with her child in a ǩiõtkâm
Atikamekw cradleboard
Iroquois cradle board
Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush or reedmace, in American English as reed, cattail, or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as reed, cattail, bulrush or raupo. Other taxa of plants may be known as bulrush, including some sedges in Scirpus and related genera.
Typha
Typha at the edge of a small wetland in Marshall County, Indiana, United States
Typha latifolia (蒲, gama) in Japan
Typha angustifolia at the edge of a reservoir in Croatia