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have needed to be carried for as long as parents have needed to go places, and different cultures have devised ingenious methods to ease the burden of bearing the weight of a small child on long, or even short, walks. Many Native Americans used a cradleboard, a highly decorated board covered in cloth in which the baby could be secured, typically by laces running across the cloth. The cradleboard was then strapped to the carrier's back. Members of other cultures carried, or sometimes still carry, children wrapped in shawls, slings, or strips of cloth tied around the carrier's shoulders, neck, or hip. The adult Inuits of northern Canada often carry children in the large, furry hoods of their caribou-skin parkas. The Papuans of Papua New Guinea carry their children in nets woven from string made from the inner bark of trees.