Caption Reads: Supported by its mother, a Blackfoot baby leans from its cradleboard. Elaborate beadwork, as on the Kiowa board at right, followed traditional tribal designs and was an expression of a family's pride in the child. Such boards could be carried on a travois or attached to a saddle horn. The hide coverings offered both warmth and security. The sharply pointed extensions of these backboards were designed to stick like arrows to the earth, in case there was an accident and the baby fell headfirst from its mother's horse.