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Anishinaabeg · Ojibway

The web for the children

When Spider Woman could not be at every cradle, the grandmothers wove.

A simple willow hoop and woven web hanging above an empty moss-lined cradle inside a birchbark dwelling.

, Spider Woman, watched over the people, and especially over children new to the world. When the Anishinaabeg lived close, she could be near the cradles. Then the people spread across lakes and along rivers, and one watcher could not be in every lodge.

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