Archaeologists believe that the Ancestral Pueblo strap was attached to a basket but it could have been used for other purposes. More than 800 years later, the similar strap shown here (right) was used by Mohave people to fasten their babies into cradleboards.

Mohave Strap 1911 Arizona Catalog Information

 
This photograph shows how an Apache mother has secured her baby to a cradleboard with a plain cloth strip.

Above: Apache woman holding a baby in a cradleboard. Location and photographer not recorded. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, neg. no. 2493(R)